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2023 Marzae Sauvage M. Struthiopteris
75% cider apple juice & pomace (porters perfection; Ashmead’s kernel; golden russet; spitzenburg); 25% wine juice & grapes (20% vidal; 80% chardonnay); 1.25 tons chardonnay (40%) & vidal (60%) skins
Massachusetts

Marzae Sauvage wines are inspired by the edible flora & fauna of New England. M. struthiopteris (fiddlehead fern) shares much looser connection to the wine itself than some of our other labels but seemed a good fit for a unique spring release. This is one of our personal favorites because we can’t think of anything else quite like it, but the results are fabulous. Concept is simple enough—we wanted to make a natural cider that was going to be robust enough to hold up well to oxidative aging. Hence a cider base made up of all the best cider apples we had to work with, layered with lots and lots of chardonnay & vidal skins, and a bit of actual wine, making for a cider with an orange wine like bite and depth. Partially barrel aged, partially amphora aged, and partly stainless steel aged, then blended together, the result is deep and tropical fruity with a smokey, earthy mezcal-like element…all coming in at just 9.5%!

Dried mango, orange, mezcal, guava, mastic.