Made from U.S. Grown Fresh Apples - Not from Concentrate. Windmill Farms is located in Ferndale, Michigan, in Apple Mill Valley. This fertile region in the Mid-West produces the most flavorful apple varieties. Local growers supply tree-ripened, hand-picked apples, including the old-fashioned tart-sweet Newtown Pippin, for Windmill Farms premium 100% juices.
Windmill Farms premium 100% juices are flash-pasteurized, hot-filled into new bottles, capped and quickly cooled to retain the natural apple flavor. Windmill Farms Sparkling Cider and other sparkling 100% juices are carbonated, cold-filled, capped, then slowly pasteurized and cooled in the bottle.
Recent studies suggest that apple juice may provide health benefits that go well beyond the long-established vitamin- and mineral-associated benefits of natural fruits. Apple juice is also rich in phytonutrients, which are believed to have powerful antioxidant effects and which have been linked to lowered risk for many chronic and age-related ailments.
In 1925, Carl A. Shewbach developed a process for making unfermented apple juice, while a student at the University of Michigan. During prohibition, the company grew by specializing in non-alcoholic apple juice products.