Aeblerov & Riffault Brutal!!! Cider 2016
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| Management number | 253563289 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$16.40 | Model Number | 253563289 | ||
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Brutal!!! is a collaboration between Æblerov, the Copenhagen-based natural cidery founded in 2011 by Christopher Melin and Morten Sylvest-Noer, and Sébastien Riffault, the biodynamic vigneron from Sury-en-Vaux in Sancerre. The 2016 is made from organic Rød Aroma apples sourced from Danish orchards, fermented with native yeasts from the fruit's own surface, and aged in retired Riffault barriques — the same barrels that held his limestone-and-silex Sancerre cuvées.
Æblerov presses each apple variety individually using a low-pressure press, macerates the must for 24 hours before fermentation begins, and adds nothing — no yeast, no sugar, no sulfur. Secondary fermentation occurs in bottle on residual natural sugars in the méthode ancestrale style, producing fine, persistent bubbles. The result is bottled unfined and unfiltered with natural lees sediment present.
The Riffault barrel component, labeled Akmèniné in Riffault's Lithuanian-named lineup, refers to his stony limestone and silex terroir at Sury-en-Vaux. The cider's time in those spent barrels adds a faint oxidative texture and mineral echo without contributing sulfur or additives of any kind. The overall profile runs bone dry with pronounced acidity, funky fermented-apple character, raspberry and citrus notes, and a chalky, lingering finish.
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