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Pommeau

A sweet apple dessert wine generally consumed as an aperitif, Pommeau is an aged before dinner drink to help stimulate the appetite and palate. Pommeau is typically crafted by blending 70% apple juice and 30% brandy. Best enjoyed neat or over ice. 

We craft our pommeau with 100% fresh-pressed juice using a blend of dessert and heirloom apples aged in French oak barrels for 12 months. 

Taste Profile: Distinct baked apple, toasted graham cracker and almost butterscotch/brown sugar character, followed by tobacco and twine. It is quite sweet and is complemented by notes of over-ripe apples and fruit leather. It's completed with several layers of velvet and a boozy finish. 
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Apple:
A blend of dessert and heirloom apples: Fuji, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Gala, Red Delicious, Arkansas Black, Black twig, Ashmead's Kernel, Winter Banana, Jonathan, Wickson.
Orchard: Sonoma County
Distillation Date: September 2020
Aged:
Neutral French Oak barrels for 12 months. The blended pommeau was then aged in Neutral French oak barrels for 3 months before bottling the final product.
Cask Proof: 122
ABV: 18%
Production: 100 cases of 375mL bottles

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Gravenstein Apple Brandy

Each year we collaborate with local apple farmers to grow and harvest Gravenstein apples to craft our Save the Gravenstein single-varietal cider. As we continue our mission to save this beloved fruit, our Gravenstein Apple Brandy - made from the same fresh-pressed Gravenstein apple juice - allows us to highlight this heirloom apple varietal in a whole new light. Our Gravenstein apples are grown on Roberts Orchard and pressed at Apple A Day, right here in Sonoma County. It is then distilled at Alley 6 Craft Distillery just up the street from our cidery in Healdsburg.

​Aged in heavy-toast French Oak barrels to provide rich notes of maple and caramel-candied apple, our Gravenstein Apple Brandy is rich in flavor that is perfect for sipping or crafting your favorite cocktail.
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Apple: 100% Sonoma County Gravenstein
Orchard: Roberts Orchard, Sonoma County
Distillation Date: September 2020
Aged: Heavy-toasted French Oak for 12 months
Cask Proof: 122
Bottle Proof: 90
Production: 150 cases of 375mL bottles

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