Artisanal, Small-Batch  Pomarium Renaissance®

Regardless of which of our batches you taste, you will recognize Pomarium Renaissance even though the different crabapple juices used for blending may differ. We do not aim to make Pomarium Renaissance consistently identical between small-batches or from year to year. Creating an always identical product that is divorced from nature is not our goal. 

What is in the finished product depends on multiple factors...which specific selections of our small fruit we blend, the stage of maturity at which the fruit was harvested, the type of growing season, and more. 

Different blends of Pomarium Renaissance may have higher or lower levels of acids, bitters, sugars and plant-produced chemicals that each contribute to flavour.  Colour may vary, ranging from dark orange to bright red. The red colour spectrum is due to anthocyanins. (Good-for-you ingredients brought to humans by the plant world.) But regardless of these variables, the product remains consistently recognizable as Pomarium Renaissance.

The craft required to blend and process these fruits requires techniques we have created through trial and error over the years in order to create a “more or less” consistent product that will be pleasing to most people. The flavour will vary for the same reasons that wines are different from year to year. We are not dealing with a product created in a laboratory. It is nature that determines the growing conditions in any given year. 

Through our process of blending many different wild-flavoured tiny apple fruits from our orchard, we have learned to accommodate variations, aiming for a sweet and sour balance that is middle of the road and will appeal to most of our customers. Because we aim for the middle of the spectrum, there will always be some who will find it too acidic and others who find it too sweet.

For Pomarium Renaissance to be absolutely the same from batch to batch and year to year would require manipulating the juice with supplemental flavours and colour additives. Once down that road, why stop short of re-creating the flavour of Pomarium Renaissance from scratch in a lab, using some combination of natural or artificial flavours, colours and sweeteners? Surely, not impossible to do. 

But we prefer the real thing.

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