Pear Apple 2024 Pet Nat
Vagrant Cider in Penryn, Cornwall, England 🏴
Cider - Single Variety Regular|
Score
6.84
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It's not a blend of apples and pears, it's a cider plain and simple. Actually it's a single variety cider made with pear apple, a variety rediscovered by James Evans and Mary Martin as a single tree growing in a derelict orchard in Golant and named because it looks like a pear. Imaginative. To the best of their knowledge, Vagrant are the only producers making a single variety cider with these apples. They will definitely be making more.
It's dry and still with a lovely round, tannic middle, pairs very nicely with strong cheese. Fresh as a spring breeze. This iteration is in addition to their normal bottling - there was a load of this fruit around for the 2024 harvest, so they decided to try it as a pet nat.
This is the result. There is also the normal still bottling, but try this for some fizz alternative!
It's dry and still with a lovely round, tannic middle, pairs very nicely with strong cheese. Fresh as a spring breeze. This iteration is in addition to their normal bottling - there was a load of this fruit around for the 2024 harvest, so they decided to try it as a pet nat.
This is the result. There is also the normal still bottling, but try this for some fizz alternative!
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7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle from Vagrant Cider. Sparkling, yellow golden colour, white foam head and aroma of apple, barnyard funk. Taste is tart, appley, fleshy fruity, tangy, with mucky funky notes, core, skin, some acidity and drying tannin. Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, dry acidic & tannic finish. Quite drinkable.
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from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2026
at 19:04