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About the Cider
A pet-nat cider made using a blend of apple varieties from Smith Hayne’s unsprayed traditional orchard in Devon. The name says it all, ‘Sunbeams and Rainbows’ is hugely drinkable, zesty and bright – the bottle will be empty before you know it.
Made with a range of different apple varieties including Dabinet, Stembridge Cluster, Bramley, Porters Perfection, Fillabarrel, Lambourne Pippin, Browns and Yarlington Mill. The apples were collected by hand from the orchard floor late in the season and directly milled and pressed. Following a slow, spontaneous fermentation over the winter, the cider was bottled in the early summer of 2023 to capture a small amount of fizz. Bottled with no additions and not disgorged – only 698 bottles were produced.
About Offbeat
Offbeat Wines was born in 2018 as a creative outlet for Daniel whilst he was heading up the winemaking at Langham Wine Estate in Dorset, but it has since grown into a full-time family operation. Since 2020, Daniel and his wife Nicola (both formally marine biologists) have been making wines in their own cellar, a converted barn at Botley’s Farm, just outside Salisbury.
Dan & Nicola have developed close relationships with responsible, passionate growers in the South West, and their wines for the foreseeable future will be focused on celebrating the quality of fruit from two farms in particular. They work with Duncan McNeill, who farms an organic vineyard in Crouch Valley and Lucie and Jules in Kent who are farming biodynamically.
Nicola and Daniel work as naturally as possible, ferments are wild, and production is tiny with only around 2,000 bottles of each cuvée made. The project is another shining example of showing the potential of English natural wines. The project going from strength to strength, we look forward to seeing what happens next.
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