Kajabaca Winery

Kajabaca berryfarm was established in 2018. We then had a vision about producing craft wines of berryfarm's hand picked, high quality berries

Punainen karviainen ja viherherukka:

Red gooseberry and green currant

We selected these rarely farmed Finnish berries as the core crops of our fields. Lepaa red goosberry has been developed in Finland and the berry is very suitable for wine production. Gooseberry has been called as Nordic grape due to the size and the juicyness of the berry. Green currant was dereived of black currant about 50 years ago in Finland. The berry is very Finland specific and known to be farmed ony here. The berry contains even more vitamin C than the black currant. It lack's the black colour pigment of it's black currant origin which means that the berries remain green even whey they are ripe. A big benefit of this for the farmer is that birds don't see the ripe berries in the bushes. One big nuicance of the farmer is thus overcome.

There are a few major benefits in growing the raw materials for wines in the Finnish climate.

• The freezing ground and the snow in the winter destroy any crops damaging pests very effectively. We don't have any need to use pesticides in our farming
• The long daylight during the summer months develop and ripen the berries into healthy vitamin packages while the large temperature difference between the days and nights provide the sweet, Nordic taste in the berries
• Water is plentiful and it is clean. This is important for the quality and taste of the berries