My Ciders
Greenpoint Cidery ciders
MY CIDERS
‘First Edition’ farmhouse-style cider
A farmhouse-style cider made from a blend of three New York apples. Dry, unfiltered, unfined, with frizzante bubbles created by a secondary fermentation in the bottle.
Clean drinking, balanced acidity, mildly funky, this cider highlights the beauty of the fruit, and is an excellent introduction to natural, wine-like cider.
First Edition always contains a base of half Northern Spy and a quarter Gold Rush, with the last quarter composed of the best available fruit according to that year's growing season and the needs of the cider. The 2022 was completed with one quarter Newtown PIppen, and past apple varietals have included Golden Russet, Baldwin, Ida Red, Dabinette.
Made from late pressing apples, it's fermented in two batches -- one native ferment and one with a white wine yeast -- which are fermented to dry then blended and aged until bottling the following fall with a champagne yeast dosage. Those bottles are then aged a minimum 6 months before release. No sulfites.
500 mL
‘Simon’ Wild Pet Nat Cider
This pet nat style cider is about as low intervention as I could get: spontaneous native fermentation, no sulfites, no fining or filtering, and undisgorged, just cider bottled clean, mid fermentation, then aged in the bottle one year. Nothing added and nothing removed.
This cider is named after my small friend Simon. The original release was bottled mere days after he was born on the property a few hundred feet away, and continues to grow and age in character as he does.
An experimental cider in limited release
750 mL
‘Days of Heaven’ dandelion cider
Each May, I gather dandelions from the grass around the cidery, pluck their petals, sit them on an already finished dry cider for approximately two months, and let that liquid age in the bottle for another two months.
The result is a subtle hint of spring in a bottle: unexpected sun on your back, newly cut grass, the suggestion of flowers in the air, the earthy bitterness of wet dirt. I give it a whisper of bubbles to help lift the aromatics, and finish the bottles with a hand-dipped wax top and hand-painted wash of yellow on the front.
An experimental cider in limited release
375 mL
‘We're Laughing’ wild grape co-ferment
A dry cider re-fermented on wild grapes.
Wild grapes grow all over the property at Sabo Lane. Each fall, I forage them at ripeness, press them pigeage à pied, and let them ferment natively whole cluster for two weeks before adding them to a cider to finishing fermenting slowly to dry. Bottle conditioned traditional method and aged another 6 months before release.
The end result is perfect for a late-summer picnic: brightly tart and tannic, with fine bubbles, notes of fresh cranberries and spicy green brambles, with a sour bite from the wild yeasts.
An experimental cider in limited release
750 mL
‘Dream Baby Dream’ mugwort-infused cider
A still, dry cider infused with locally foraged mugwort growing just outside the cidery. An herbal cider with strong notes of sage, wild oregano, and lavandar on the nose and palate, with hints of fresh cut grass, pine, and grapefruit zest.
Mugwort was used in days past to bitter beer, and is known as a protective herb. Lucid dreamers often use it to guide their dream, and it’s thought to be a powerful lunar herb.
An experimental cider in limited release
750 mL
“Dream Baby Dream” — Suicide (1979)
