Our story
Handed down. Passed around.
A grandmother’s cider from South Africa, made in California and poured for anyone who sits at the table.
- Founder
- Ka’nete Mlaudzi
- Roots
- South Africa
- Made in
- California
- First poured
- Santa Cruz
From Ka’nete
When my family gathered in South Africa, my grandmother made the cider and I helped her. What I remember most is the room: the food, the music, family and friends and new faces, and her cider being passed around.
I came to the United States in 1997 to study in Minneapolis, and eventually settled in California. I always wanted something here that tasted like home. One evening, years later, that room came back to me, and it felt almost as if she was telling me to make it myself.
The next week my friend Tsan taught me to brew in her garage in Oakland. I spent every weekend there learning, then turned to cider. It was always mine.
Friends tried the first batches at my house and told me to sell it. So I licensed with the California ABC, started in a shared kitchen and held tastings there. Restaurants in Santa Cruz were the first to pour it.
Her cider brought our family together. Ours is made for yours.
How it started
From her table to yours
- 01
South Africa
Helping his grandmother make cider whenever the family gathered.
- 02
Minneapolis
Ka’nete arrives in the United States in 1997 to study, and later settles in California.
- 03
Oakland
A friend teaches him to brew in her garage. Every weekend, and then cider.
- 04
Shared kitchen
A California ABC license, the first batches for sale and tastings in the kitchen.
- 05
Santa Cruz
Restaurants in Santa Cruz pour it first. Today 24 places do.
The table
Made for a full table
Anzani gets poured where people gather: a tasting, a long dinner, a bar on a Friday night. Pull up a chair.
