New Product!
This Sunday, at our special Apple Day celebration, we will be launching our brand new Torrisdale Castle Estate Apple Mistelle, made with our very own estate apples.
A mistelle is a sweet, fortified drink made by adding a distilled spirit (we used our apple Eau de Vie) to unfermented juice (we used freshly pressed juice from our orchard apples). This halts the process and preserves the fruit’s natural sugars. We then aged the yield in a former calvados cask for a year. The resulting flavour is intensely appley with a wonderful, dry finish. It has an abv of 18% so can be enjoyed over ice or with soda for a longer drink.
This is a quite a departure from our usual higher strength spirits as we wanted to create something truly unique using our own home-grown produce. Our mistelle is a genuine orchard-bottle product that has a very low carbon footprint. We pride ourselves on our sustainable credentials and use our own hydro electricity to power our distillery.
How to Enjoy Torrisdale Estate Apple Mistelle
Whether you’re a connoisseur of fine spirits or just looking for a new favourite tipple, our Apple Mistelle is incredibly versatile:
- Neat: Serve chilled as an exquisite apéritif or digestif. Its natural sweetness and rich apple notes shine brightest on their own.
- With Cheese: It makes a sublime pairing with a strong cheddar, a salty blue cheese, or a creamy goat’s cheese.
- In Cocktails: Use it to replace sweet vermouth or a simple syrup for a unique, fruity twist on classic cocktails like a Manhattan or a French 75.
Kintyre Apple Mistelle is available for purchase starting this weekend in our distillery shop or online.
