ZoomArlo NVNV
Revel Cider & ibi WinesGuelph, Ontario, Canada
About this wine
Arlo NV is the white companion to ibi Wines' Adora red, both produced by the Revel Cider team in Guelph, Ontario. Revel was founded in 2014 by Tariq Ahmed while he was a Plant Sciences student at the University of Guelph; ibi is the wine project that emerged from the cidery's existing tanks and native-yeast culture. Arlo is built around farm-grown and foraged Ontario fruit, fermented exclusively with the indigenous yeasts already present on the fruit and within the cidery's working environment. No additives, low-intervention throughout. Composition shifts release-to-release as a function of what the foraging and farm partnerships yield in any given year. 12% alcohol; a clean, savoury, distinctly Ontario natural-wine white for accounts looking outside the standard French / Italian / Spanish frame.
Winemaking
Native-yeast (indigenous) fermentation, allowing the organisms naturally present on the fruit and within the cidery to drive the ferment. Low-intervention cellar; no additives. Composition combines farm-grown and foraged Ontario fruit; mix shifts release-to-release.