Våra äppelgårdar – Köpings Musteri

Our orchards

Köpings musteri

Bergs Orchard in Hallstahammar

Wow! That's how we felt when we stepped through the gates to Sweden's first organic fruit farm. Love at first sight! It is a labor-intensive task to renovate the old plantation, which was established in the early 90s, and it will need many years of work to find its future form. It is a large experimental farm with around a hundred varieties of apples, pears and plums. Extensive cultivation mixed with semi-intensive

We grow fruit, berries and grapes that grow here mostly for the drinks in our large but also exclusive range. We thrive in our wild and untamed orchard where a large amount of insects become food for a lot of exciting little birds. The variety is breathtaking, exciting and not least surprising. Come and try it yourself at a tasting!! Kom och prova själva på en dryckesp r ovning!

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About 6,000 trees in total, both old and new. Large parts of the plantation are still somewhat wild and were when we took it over in 2016 and we are working on slowly but surely pruning down the trees that have grown tall and sprawling. We also plant a few rows of new trees every year to rejuvenate the cultivation and be able to replace the trees that have died or for some other reason no longer bear fruit. When we plan the new lines, we look at which varieties we have that are unusual, deep and varied in taste, store well and that we wish a greater yield from

Last year, among other things, Piflora, Florina and Reglindis were planted in empty rows.

In late summer, the picking begins with the plums, then the pears and we finish off with the apples. We sell pears and plums to a certain extent to restaurants and other processors such as marmalade makers, but above all we press and ferment perry and cider. "Päroncider" as we call it in Sweden is called perry in English, which is what we also call it, partly to distinguish it from the sweet alcoholic soft drink that is generally known as cider in Sweden

All fruit is picked by hand and the apples are sorted when picked. All fruit becomes must or cider with us after careful handling.

Rasgärde Orchard

When we planted apple trees on the farmland in Rasgärde, the family farm, in 2015, we had an incredible dilemma. Which varieties would we choose from all these thousands of possibilities? Because we will have them for e.g. must and cider, we wanted varieties that had both different tastes, acidity levels and tannins. Ripening at different times is also an advantage.

In the apple orchard in Rasgärde, Köping, we have planted some English cider varieties.

Dabinett, Yarlington Mill, Amanda, Somerset Redstreak, Ellis Bitter och Foxwhelp

Utöver det har vi satt svenska sorter där ympriset kommer från Julita och genbanken där. Till exempel; Röd Höstkalvill, Fagerö (Som är Västmanlands landskapsäpple) Signe Tillisch, Råby Rubin och Filippa.

We also have varieties from Finland such as Gerby Kanel, Veiniöun and Pekka as well as Tzarens Skjöld from Estonia.

Varieties and more varieties

A very wide range of apple varieties can be found here, with both well-known varieties such as Amorosa, Karin Schneider and Discovery to small unknown varieties such as Pigge, Dayton, Ledsenu and Rigas Rosor. Some old varieties such as Åkerö, Rubin and Rödluvan are also grown and refined here. We press as many of these varieties as possible individually and bottle them, varietal pure, in order to have a wide range of different flavors that the different varieties have to offer. We also have varieties from Finland such as Gerby Kanel, Veniöun and Pekka as well as Tzarens Skjöld from Estonia.

In order to be able to create a drink menu with apple cider, it is necessary that the range of flavors is wide. We can offer that and we will continue to develop that concept! All drinks from our own fruit carry the terroir from Västra Mälardalen. Rich in minerality, mature from long hours of sunshine and very complex