Northern Spy

(750ml 2019 bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours clear deep gold with a rapidly fizzing and re-establishing white head. Aroma is sweet, savoury and musky apples, almost caramelized hints but also a clear minerality, storage apple-like musty woodsiness, quite some barnyard/hayloft funk, suggestions of tannic depth. Flavour is bone dry throughout the sip, certainly quite a savoury apple, high minerality, musty and very present but fine tannins, some grapefruit pith, very dry mineral finish, not super-fruity at all. Medium-bodied, oily, mouth-filling bottle condition carbonation. A bit of an atypical cider but a very interesting and surprisingly drinkable one despite its 'brusque' character.