Our delicious sparkling cider is produced from the Malus Siversii wild apple, from which all apples around the world are descended.

Found on the slopes of the Tian Shan mountain range, known as “The Heavenly Mountains” in South Kazakhstan, we have found its properties and taste characteristics are perfect for quality cider-making.

We have specially selected a number of varieties of this unique, Kazakh, wild apple that we believe provide the perfect blend for cider-making to grow in our orchard.

The History

Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, an Estonian-German biologist, was the first scientist to detail the plentiful canopies of the apple forests of the Tien Shan mountains in 1833

The theory that this region of Central Asia was the centre of origin for the domestic apple was later expanded by the Russian scientist Nikolai Vavilov who explored the forests of Central Asia in the 1920s.

Significant work was done by the Kazakh scientist Aymak Djangaliev to preserve Kazakhstan’s wild apple forests after widespread deforestation during the Soviet period. Today the forests sit within protected natural reserves.

In 2010, a team of 86 global scientists from 20 institutions sequenced the genome of the domestic apple for the first time, publishing their findings in the journal Nature Genetics. They discovered that Kazakhstan’s Malus Siversii was indeed the wild ancestor to which all 7,500 different apple varieties around the world can be traced back to.