8.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

I snuck a bottle away of this at my in-laws place one visit, just in case. It survived a few consolidations & clean-ups & give backs. I finally popped it because we now live so close by. Had no idea they recently stopped producing it. Cork seems to think this is a 2017 bottle. I probably got this from a Christmas market at the now defunct Brooklyn Cider House location in Bushwick(which no one ever added or rated!). Mojito glass @home. Clear, glassy, 14k gold, quick hitting soda head. Pineapple juice, apple-lemon pie tart, sharp preserves, fresh cut wood. Taste is a strong, acidic, bittersweet winey profile, laced with some earthy aromatics. Lots of familiar sharp & semi-sweet flavors, fermented dry. A touch smokey, thin & quite bourbon-y with a hint of vanilla & apple core rounding to creamy at the end. Strong, brash acidity, was defacto flavor profile for South Hill for many years. Aged as it is, it is still quite bold. Thin, acidic, warm bourbon. Very tasty.