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Decideret
Copenhagen · Zealand · Denmark
Decideret is a small fruit-wine and cider project based in Nordhavn, Copenhagen’s harbour district. It began in late summer 2015 when three friends — Jakob, Cornelius and Martin — wondered why Denmark, so rich in apples, had so little culture of fine cider compared with France, England or Spain. They borrowed a press, gathered fruit from Copenhagen gardens and made about a hundred bottles in a parents’ garage. Today they work from a cellar on Kattegatvej, sourcing hand-picked apples, pears, plums, cherries and blackcurrants from organic orchards in eastern Denmark and from private gardens that would otherwise go to waste. Fermentations are wild, with nothing added;
“the bottles are pét-nats closer in texture to natural wine than to industrial cider.”
Cuvées such as Who the Fuck Pears? (Williams pears and Bramley apples from Lilleø) and Plumbastik sit beside apple-only fermentations, delivered around the city by cargo bike. A Nordic take on the pét-nat spirit — dry, juicy and deliberately hard to categorise.
