Why it matters
The producer
Kiviks Musteri is not a wine estate. It is a Swedish food and drink producer, rooted in apple orchards on the slopes of Stenshuvud in Österlen, the southeastern corner of Skåne, that has spent four generations turning fruit into bottles. The wine shelf sits alongside apple must, cider, and an apple-based sparkling wine.
The Åkesson family founded the orchard in 1888. By 1935 they were pressing apples rather than selling them. By 1985 they had put their name on Amadeus, Sweden's first sparkling wine, made from apples rather than grapes. Today the fourth generation, siblings Kristina Levinsson and Bengt Åkesson, leads a business that imports Australian rosé, bottles it in Kivik, and sells it alongside a house white and the original sparkling.
Place and vineyards
Where the wines begin
Kivik sits on the coast of southeastern Skåne, Sweden's southernmost province, facing the Baltic and backed by the granite ridge of Stenshuvud. Österlen is orchard country: apples, cherries, and stone fruit, not vines. No wine appellation exists here, and no wine grapes are grown on the Kivik estate.
The wines in the Kiviks Musteri range carry Australian origins. Oz Rozz and Twenty One Rosé are sourced from Australia and packaged in Kivik. Husets Vita is an organic-certified house white of unconfirmed grape origin. The Kivik address on the label marks the bottling location and the brand's home, not a growing region.
In the cellar
Vineyards and cellar
No vines are farmed at Kivik. The cellar work that matters for the wine range happens at the source.
Twenty One Rosé is sourced from Riverland, South Australia, where Pinot Noir grapes are harvested mechanically at night. The night harvest keeps grape temperatures low through delivery and crush, limiting oxidation risk and preserving the fruit's freshness before fermentation. The must ferments for 19 days in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, a method that holds the aromatic profile and keeps the wine light and clean.
Wines to know
The range in view
The range divides into two sourced Australian rosés, a house white, and the apple-based sparkling.
Oz Rozz Rosé is a Shiraz and Petit Verdot blend from Australia, made with brief skin contact and packaged in Tetra format. It is dry, light, and built for easy drinking, with strawberry, peach, blood orange, herbs, and red currant on the nose and palate. The skin contact gives a pale salmon colour and a faint grip that keeps the fruit from reading as sweet.
A useful way in
A bottle to begin with
Twenty One Rosé is the bottle to start with. It is a Pinot Noir rosé from Riverland, South Australia, harvested at night and fermented for 19 days in stainless steel. It has a pale, aromatic profile with ripe strawberry, peach, and raspberry leading, a herbal thread running through, and a dry, acid-led finish. The night-harvest method gives the wine more freshness than its price point usually delivers. If you want to understand what Kiviks Musteri does with its sourced range, this is the most purposeful bottle in it.