7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bright clear pink, violet and light brown coloured body with a thinnish off-white head on top that fades fairly quickly and doesn't leave much upstairs. Aroma of spices up front with some apples, pears, grapes, caster sugar, alcohol, and way more spice.  Light to even slightly Medium-bodied (for a cider); Strong spice flavours dominate everything up front with a ton of canella, cinnamon, earth, nuts, licorice, anise, nutmeg and even horehound notes that show way more complexity and punch than the apples, which are noticeable. Aftertaste shows more spice with some molasses,  spice, anise and pungent soy sauce component, all with a lot of extra sugars and honey notes with nutmeg and ginger, too. Overall, a very richly spiced cider that shows a ton of flavours from that instead of the typical apple and honey notes, but a very pungent and very interesting cider throughout. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 17-December-2019 for US$3,49 sampled at home in Washington on 06-February-2020.