FRUIT CRU YUZU FRUIT PÉT NAT 2024

Cidery notes
"Fruit cru is a small organic certified winery using traditional wine making techniques and applying them to locally sourced fruit. We’re located in Wellington, New Zealand at the southern most tip of the north island. Working exclusively with organic fruit means plenty of indigenous yeast and we use this exclusively for all our ferments. We co-ferment site specific varieties and finish them in bottle using the tried and true methode ancestale. Finally we age on lees for a minimum of six months. From the orchard to the winery we take utmost care with every ingredient to ensure the highest quality expression of Aotearoa’s finest produce. We guide the fruit with a gentle hand but ultimately it tells us the direction it wants to go.

Yuzu has been one of most popular cuvées so you know we had to run it back. This year we've gone deeper, including a splash of pear for sweetness and a dollop of quince for our signature floral aromas. It’s fragrant and fresh with the unmistakable flavour of Japanese citrus (grown locally in Te Horo by the legend Neville Chun). Not quite lemon, not quite grapefruit and not quite mandarin but amazingly vibrant and complex."