By SkyggeBrygger in Sweden

Apple Icewine made from frozen must and fermented on Champagne yeast. The apples come from gardens in the small villages around the hamlet of Odensjo and the old wild apple trees growing along the roadsides and in the forest. All sizes and varieties (some wild and unnamed while others lost to time) are pressed and the must is frozen, unthawed very slowly and the concentrated juice is fermented. All these apples would otherwise have fallen from three and rotted away on the ground (due to lack of time to pick them or old age they would not be harvested).

This was the foundation for the idea that made this wine. That all these apples of the highest quality should be used.

SkyggeBrygger is a Danish autodidact winemaker behind the idea and wine. After many years traveling around the world and living in the busy capital of Denmark, he and his wife moved to Sweden to live a more relaxed life in the forest in a small town of 55 inhabitants edged between the lakes of southern Sweden. The name "SkyggeBrygger" translates to "the one who makes wine in the shadows". It is originally a joke that was based on very strict alcohol laws of Sweden, that makes it extremely hard to get a licence to produce wine in Sweden.

While "SkyggeBrygger '' was not breaking any laws, he still felt a little like he was "making wine in the shadow's" in the beginning of his production and so the name stuck. His wines are made with minimum influence and in very small batches. Sometimes down to 10L batches. The alcohol level is kept low, the acidity is high, and the fresh fruit are evident. The yields are very low and are often picked by kids from the villages or sourced by "fruit exchanges" where people can deliver their garden apples to their local farm shop and swap them for milk, cheese etc.

"I hope to show people the value of their amazing apples in a country where over 270.000 tons of garden and wild apple rot away every year, while 80.000 tons of commercial apples are imported every year."