Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Very crisp and ever so slightly hazy golden and straw coloured body with a very fast-dying (if even one was created in the first place!?!) pure white head that is a bit more opaque than usual, but still only around 5 per cent. Aroma of super strong and noticeable allspice and especially nutmeg here with some vanilla around and a bunch of pure vanilla in the finish with some squash aspects, but much more from the spices associated with pumpkin pie than actual squashes. Light-bodied; Quite sweet flavour at first with icing sugar, brown sugar, allspice and cloves with some anise as well and a lot of the pear and banana elements versus anything remotely showing squash and not much appley flavour either - this is pure sugars and spice. Aftertaste is decent with a lot of sugars, not at the cloying level, but still showing more sugar than expected and less of a fruity note, especially those from apples, which are oddly gone here, with the spice notes strongest at the end and also a lot of vanilla and icing sugar strength, too. Overall, a funky, deep and spicey, robust and very rich cider with some squash notes, but more from the 'pumpkin pie spice' that we've grown up with, having allspice, nutmeg, canella and coriander seed all here and less from a rich, creamy body that would have come from any squash (nothing here). Overall, a nice, rich and pungent, but perhaps a bit too sweet, cider that is nice to sample, even well past Fall, but on a chilly night here in Washington in May, a nice way to reflect on the season and the year here in the city. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Wegman's in Alexandria, Virginia on 20-October-2021 for US$1,99 sampled at my house here in Washington on 07-May-2022 with a date of '08 21' (August 2021?!?) on the bottom of the label.