Still Cider Admirers ❆
For fans of still cider, we chose our three of our favourites
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Peut Etre 2020 (750ml 7.4%) we sourced fine, ripe, handpicked Michelin from Dragon Orchard, Herefordshire, and similarly beautiful Dabinett from Brook House Farm, pressing and fermenting them together. Both quite tannic apple varieties, to help soften them we moved the nascent cider into some lovely ex-red wine barrels. There the cider developed beautifully and now it’s all sweet flowers and spiced apple pie on the nose, with candied apricots, vanilla, cloves and peach in the mouth. It’s a super juicy, fruit forward, joyful showcase of these two apples and proves our friends over in Ross on Wye know a good thing when they see it.
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Little Green Apples (750ml 6.9%) this one is a blend of our favourite apple, Egremont Russett (70%) with Dabinett and Chisel Jersey in roughly equal parts. All were co-fermented in tank and later moved into ex-red wine barrels. Here the cider stayed for a full two years, not neglected, but never quite fitting into other things we were doing or ready to make their debut. And then, one spring day, the barrel tasting revealed two gems. Blended together, they have become a seamless whole, where purple wallflowers meet with sappy ripe apples, sweet spices, barrel perfume, juicy, succulent acids and beautifully soft tannins. This is a cider for the dining table – soulful, complex and versatile.
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When Burum Met Pomona (750ml 7.4%) we took gorgeous hand-picked Dabinett apples from Brook House Farm, wild fermented them and then matured the cider in ex-Chardonnay barrels for six months before bottling. In the end it’s become a super juicy, “peach juice and tangy orange dripping from your chin” type of cider. If you trapped it in coloured gelatine pastilles, this would be the world’s tastiest wine gums!
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