The Single Variety Collection ❆
For anyone looking to enjoy bottles of single variety cider, or perry then this is the box for you. An exploration into the breadths and depths of acid, tannin, and sugar. Each of these varieties deserve to the celebrated, and it's a great educational tool for anyone looking to get a greater understanding of some of the UKs best apples and pears. This is just a collection of some of our favourites, if you're looking for more single varieties then head to our main web shop, or feel free to send us an email if you're looking for any more recommendations!
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Yarlington Mill 2021 (750ml 7.3%) this bottle is our first serious experiment with Yarlington Mill and our first release using it as a single variety. The fruit was grown and handpicked by the team at Hill Farm, south of Hereford City, from amazing orchards planted in the 1980s. Originating in Somerset, Yarlington Mill has become the epitome of West Country cider apples – a riotous explosion of pure phenolic joy! This example shows all of the best characteristics of the variety – baking spice, leather, sweet hay, big cuddly tannins and lots and lots of juicy orange and apricot. It’s unmistakeably a drink from a farm and all the better for it.
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Kingston Black 2022 (750ml 7.4%) from the perfect 2022 harvest, this is our first bottling of Kingston Black, farmed by our friend Robin at Hill Farm. Kingston Black, with its natural balance of fruit, tannin, acid, and sugars is one of the few apples that can truly succeed as a single variety cider. To keep its purity we kept the cider out of barrels throughout the making process, and to give it a fine sparkle it was bottle conditioned prior to release. Sweet blossom, apple pie, and icing sugar aromas move onto quite concentrated flavours of honey, peach, dried apple, vanilla, and fruit cake spice. All of this is enlivened with fresh acidity and the softest of tannins to make it a a juicy mouthful of joy!
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Stoke Red 2023 (750ml 5.2%) f
or its sheer joyful vibrancy, Stoke Red may be our favourite bitter-sharp cider apple variety.
We felt that the rural method, an old technique allowing us to retain natural sugars in the final cider, would be the best way of showcasing the beauty of the fruit, and bottling it as a pét nat, helped to capture all the freshness of the vintage.
What’s come out of this, is a cider that pours a slightly hazy gold, releasing lovely aromas of tarte Tatin, roses and baking spice. In the mouth it has noticeable sweetness, but it’s the sheer juiciness and energy of the liquid that grabs your attention before flavours of warm apple pie, ripe
cherries and vanilla begin to unfurl. Joined by a lovely sweet florality and fabulously soft tannins, it’s as complete as it is delicious.
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Balls Bittersweet (750ml 7.9%) an unusual Herefordshire variety descended from Medaille d'Or and our old friend Foxwhelp. Coming from the rolling hills of West Herefordshire, they produce a beautiful, naturally balanced cider, with great depth and good acids. Wild fermented, this spent some time in second- and third-use ex-cognac barrels before bottle conditioning for a gentle, creamy bit of sparkle in the glass. Reminiscent of Yarlington Mill in both colour and phenolic profile, this is somewhat less rustic but no less characterful. The palate is full of juicy sappy apples, tangerine, incense and citrus oil, with notes of leather and sweet spice, plus soft tannins to finish.
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Throne Farm Perry (750ml 7%) the fruit is a spectrum of yellow - mango, peach and pineapple - siting within a fabulously long and textured liquid. With a hint of ripe tannin, a touch of sweetness and balance, poised acidity, this Perry speaks elegantly of the glory of the vintage. It's a Perry that is very food friendly and works beautifully with vegetarian dishes and fine seafood.
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Hendre Huffcap Perry (750ml 6.7%) this variety is the very epitome of a pear, everything we love about these fruity divas - fragrant, juicy, sweet and creamily textured. Translucent, hazy lemon in the glass, the smell of ripe pears, honey and hay tumble out of the bottle. In the mouth it's all super creamy, concentrated pear fruit to begin with before a gorgeous streak of electric acidity emerges. For a moment it becomes a real study in yuzu lemons and sherbet dib dabs, and then returns to the loveliness of the pears and the blossom.
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