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What is ibi?
ibi is the name of our sister project, focused on making grape wines that are . We make these wines in the same space, from fruit grown across the Niagara region. Why give it a different name? Well, the trademark for Revel wine was taken, so we kind of had to. We were a little bummed when we found out, but we took it as an opportunity to give our wines a different name, and a slightly different visual language as well. Like our ciders and vermouths, each of our wines is spontaneously fermented with our native microflora, unfiltered and unfined. We...
The best apples of 2022
A preview of things to come. (This is a reproduction of an email from our newsletter - to get more content like this, sign up here) So last Thursday, myself, Sean and Logan (our two cidermakers) took a road trip out to Twin Pines Orchards—where the majority of our apples and pears come from. If you don't know, Twin Pines makes the best 'clean' ciders in the province, because they grow the best dang fruit in Ontario. They aren't freaky and wild fermented like us, and they're exclusively in 1L bottles, but you can find them online here. We don't get anything if you...