Peut-Etre 2020
Little Pomona in Bromyard, Herefordshire, England 🏴
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Score
6.97
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Like many cidermakers, we’ve long viewed the ubiquitous Michelin apple with suspicion. Its well behaved trees and abundant annual crops are not typical of the best cider apples. Our good friends at Ross on Wye Cider & Perry, released the first vintage of their flagship cider in 2018 named Raison d’Être, a blend of 50% Michelin and 50% Dabinett, and it made us think, maybe just maybe…?
Fast forward to the 2020 harvest. 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.
Fast forward to the 2020 harvest. 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.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle from Little Pomona. Orange gold colour, some short-lived bubbles on top and aroma of apple, woody oak, funk. Taste is sharp, tangy, tart, juicy, apple, citric, peachy, with wood barrel, oak, vanilla, some funk and bittersweet tannins. Medium bodied, low carbonation, dry tart & tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.
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on 22 Aug 2023
at 20:07