LOBO TRAD - 330ml

LOBO Trad, cloudy cider made from a blend of special cider apples and eating apples.   Darker in colour than our regular cloudy apple, fuller flavour, a little drier.

A bit more traditional - Trad.

Full apple flavours, toffee apple notes, crisp acid, clean finish with structure and a little tanin and a hint of bitterness (in the nicest possible way!)

Like all of our ciders Trad has a natural apple and yeast sediment in the bottle, pour carefully for a clear cider or rouse the bottle, roll gently, some even shake.  The flavour changes - try it and see which you prefer.

LOBO APPLE CIDER - 330ml

LOBO Cloudy apple cider - we don't filter out the apple.  This cider is made from crushed apples that are allowed to settle briefly and then begin to ferment.  After a period we add some cultured yeast and then continue the long cool fermentation.  At the right moment the fermentation is arrested capturing the full length and depth of flavour that characterises LOBO and the cloudy wholesome cider is then put into bottles.  A natural apple and yeast sediment is present in the bottle.

Pouring LOBO cider, excellent over ice - invert the whole bottle.  It can also be rolled gently or poured carefully leaving the sediment in the bottle, each method giving different levels of clarity.  The flavour changes, experiment and see which you prefer.

LOBO APPLE & PEAR CIDER - 330ml

Full flavour, slightly lighter and fruity, plenty of apple softened with 20% pear, delicious

Preservative and Gluten Free

LOBO CYSER - 330ml

LOBO Cyser, cyser is the old name for a mead made with apple juice.  Mead is a traditional alcoholic drink made using fermented honey.  We get some honey from a neighbour who keeps bees and blend it with some apple and quince juice to produce the LOBO cyser.  There is a secret mix of herbs and spices in the recipe as well.

The result is a quite sweet, slightly sparkling drink that will surprise you.  The apple and quince moderate the honey sweetness, and give a rounder flavour.  Honey flavours, with some floral and a difficult to identify fruitiness.  Delicious "after dinner" cider, but pretty good with ice on a warm afternoon.

LOBO ROYALE - 750ml

LOBO Royale is our flagship small batch cider, again it is partially keeved, made with a mix of our cider apples and some of our LOBO base blend.  A greater proportion of Somerset Red Streak has kept the alcohol lower 3.8% ABV, and resulted in a more "french doux" style.

By stopping with residual sweetness the apple flavour is retained and quite pronounced, but the cider apples bring a gentle tanin structure and finish, which balances this with enough acidity to balance the sweetness.  The apple flavours follow and last in the mouth, quite delicious.

Bottle conditioned, preservative and gluten free. Its good with  It's a delicious food cider - try with roast pork, lots of different cheeses, but it's just as good by itself!

The Royale is no cheeseburger, but it has a lot going on.

LOBO NORMAN - 750ml

LOBO Norman is a small batch cider, made in a more European style - we make it using our traditional English cider apple varieties,  apples with names like Kingston Black, Dabinett, Yarlington Mill.  We sometimes use some carefully selected edible crab apples, and have been known to use an apple called the Winter Banana!  Pink Ladies and Golden Delicious make it in sometimes as well.  The cider apples bring tanin and structure, along with more complex apple and almost spicey flavours.

Bottle conditioned, preservative and gluten free.

It's a delicious food cider - try with roast pork, lots of different cheeses, but it's just as good by itself!

Norman is a wolf from Lenswood

LOBO APPLE BRANDY 41.6% 700ML

Lobo Cider started with some of their lovely cider, a conversation with a renowned whiskey maker, and a bit of dreaming.

Sometime later with cider double distilled in the copper pot, then aged in French oak barrels for three years, and careful blending, they are proud to release a superb South Australian Apple Brandy.

In France apple brandy is known as Calvados. You can call this one Lobodos! Twice the wolf.

LOBO APFEL - 700ml

LOBO Apfel is our first foray into apple spirit.

Starting with some of our LOBO cider, our good friend Ian at Iniquity Whisky has double distilled the cider to produce a clear spirit in the Schnapps style.

Some apple notes and a smooth soft palate.

Traditionally Schnapps is often drunk as a shot, but it also makes a good aperatif, or goes very well with a coffee after a meal.  The options in cocktails are limitless!

LOBO Gin - Djinn 500mL

Our Orchard Gin - we took out the citrus and substituted quince, aromatic, but in a slightly different way. We grow quinces, but not so much citrus here in Lenswood, the apple capital of the Adelaide Hills.

Backed up by a pure Juniper note, juniper is essential for a gin, and supported by a blend of botanicals with spices and some other etheral notes to give a complex and enjoyable gin.

Drinks well neat, the classic G+T, and with the juniper character stands up in cocktails.

Our cidermakers favourite is a simple gimlett with straight lime juice.