Producer Utopia Ciders

CZECH REPUBLIC

A lifestyle choice: Ivo and Eva have moved to their new home in Sudkův Důl in the heart of Bohemia. And it is there that the dream and the agricultural project is formed, planting orchards, vegetable gardens, raising bees, sheep, ducks, chickens, carp and trout. The apple trees occupy about 2.5 hectares, are all indigenous Czech varieties, and are up to 80 years old. They are conducted without the use of synthetic chemical products, leaving nature to self-regulate. The production of cider, in turn, regulates itself in the same way: spontaneous fermentation in small wooden barrels, to which they assign names that will then correspond to the cuvée of that particular year. The cider once formed after fermentation remains in these barrels for 12 months, before bottling and the second fermentation in the bottle, without any addition or subsequent intervention. And from apples also vinegar: in the form we know, and with special recipes that Eva personally follows, with the addition of other natural ingredients collected in the company. He calls them "drinking vinegars", because they can be added to cocktails and other drinks, or used as a condiment or in cooking.