Cider Stardust 2021 – Fruktstereo

Cider Stardust 2020 is a cider made with 80% apples (Gloster, Cox and Aroma), 15% pears (Concorde) and 5% wild honey. After pressing the fruit, the juice underwent a three week long skin maceration with Cox and Gloster skins, to add some tannins and structure to the cider. At the same time, the Fruktstereo cellar master co-fermented the Aroma apples with honey in amphora vessels, before blending the cuvee together.
Cider stardust 2020 is one of Fruktstereo’s bigger and more serious cuvées. Even though the honey has fermented out, the residual sugar from the pears maintains a lot of the flavor profile from the honey. 30% of the fruit is grown and picked by hand from Fruktstereo’s own orchard, Haväng, right by the Baltic Sea on the east coast of Skåne. The fruit is grown without adding any pesticides or herbicides. 70% is surplus fruit from local farmers in Österlen. The honey comes from lillgården in Höör.