Templar's Choice Blackberry Blush, Apple & Blackberry Co-Ferment

Freshly pressed, whole fruit apples and blackberries, 100% natural with no additions whatsoever, create a drink that’s definitely cider, but balanced with the most delicate of blackberry notes.

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Viticulture

The Templar name comes from Adam and Anne Bland’s Normandy Knights Templars Seigneurie farmhouse in the Pays d’Auge. The area from where the blackberries come enjoys a complete biodynamic balance and abounds in insects, birds, wildlife and wildflowers. The farm’s 45 acres not only produce wonderful apples, but great blackberries, too.

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Vinification

Here, whole farm blackberries are co-fermented with pure, freshly pressed AOC cider apples, keeved* and fermented over the winter months for bottling in the spring where a small, secondary fermentation creates a natural sparkle.

*Keeving is an artisan cider-making technique used to create a natural cider without sweetening or pasteurisation. Wild yeasts, cool cellars and low nutrient orchards are all key elements in the process. Only 100% fresh pressed cider apples are used, no sugar, no water, and nothing else.

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Recommendation

Ideal as an aperitif on its own – think Kir Royale – or with berry fruit desserts, or with cheese.