Reddish color and almost no head. Acidic and sour fruity. Strawberries, spicy, faint balsamico vinegar. Dry.

(750ml bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours clear deep gold with a tiny fizzing of bubbles, effectively still. Aroma is truly like apple sherry, there's a hint of candied pale cherries, lots of white wine with notes of kiwi/lychee and citrus, balanced oak, apple skins, a certain saline minerality. Flavour is definitely dry sherry, round and oak-laden, super-vinous crisp white wine and surprisingly bright apple, touches of tropical florals like lychee join the gooseberry from the Sauv Blanc and a hint of citrus, nice salinity, smooth tannins from the fruit skins, touches of acidity towards the finish and into the aftertaste which has a nice lemony herbal touch (the lemon verbena that wasn't on the label...) that mixes with tannin for a very gentle bitterness. Slight alcohol warmth. Medium-plus body, quite oily, still. Fascinating beverage, complex and completely unexpected presentation of cider (with wine). The sherry-type notes are well-accented by the apple characteristics and tannins, the Sauv Blanc is young and brightly expressive, and the salinity brings things into balance. Beautiful.

(750ml bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours deep blush with no head. Aroma of red plums, watermelon, red berries, aromatic grape-y Muscat, perfumed flowers, crisp apple undertone. Flavour is low acid, nice smooth plum and watermelon, floral Muscat, rounder white wine that is probably more Seyval, nice mineral crispness, finish has some perfumed flowers, plum tannin and nice slightly peppery crabapple-laden bite. Medium-bodied, slick, lovely effervescent moderately high carbonation. Definitely feels vinous but you don't necessarily notice the high ABV until you look at the bottle more closely as it's also delightfully drinkable. A super-fun, very floral and complex unclassifiable beverage from Revel.

(750ml 2020 bottle from the cidery - this is made with Montmorency cherries instead of plums) Pours clear pale red with a small fading whitish head and no lace. Aroma of bright and almost jammy Montmorency cherry with notes of sour cherry candies, wine gums, soft cinnamon, semi-sweet red apples, white wine, some apple skin tones. Flavour is light and brighty, only slightly tart, Montmorency bright juiciness, again a feeling of sour cherry candies, apple flesh and soft skin, a dusting of dry funk, splash of Riesling-inflected pale citrus but the wine particularly contributes a tannic breadth to the finish where it blends with the lightly saline apple juice and cherry skins to create a serially gulpable cider.

(750ml bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours clear bright yellow-gold with a rapidly fizzing head and no lace. Aroma of bright sugared citrus (meyer lemon, grapefruit, orange), softly fragrant baking spices (allspice, clove, nutmeg), perfumed florals like lavender, touch of acetic twang but not heavily vinegary, not really 'pear' per se but the residual sugar pops through. Flavour is again juicy sweetened citrus off the top, tangerine and meyer lemon, lavender, soft baking spices, orange peels, certainly some pear notes in there too in the middle of the sip with the residual sugar, nice acidity but much more lactic than acetic on the tongue, finishing semi-dry with lingering notes of pear and orange peel accented with lavender, soft silky tannins and a little lactic quench. Light to medium bodied, oily, softly carbonated. Beautiful stuff, definitely among the most unusual perrys (perries?) I've had, complex and well-balanced surprising beverage.