8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

750mL bottle, explodes upon opening and retains a lot of action for a long duration, and there's tons of sediment floating everywhere. Pours it a hazy pale golden with a small white head. Aroma is full of barnyard funk, crisp apple skins, and champagne-like effervescence. Flavour is bone dry, with an intense champagne-like effervescence replete with very high carbonation, followed by wild yeast, lots of barnyard funk, and some leather. There's maybe a touch of residual sweetness on the finish, while retaining that intense carbonation. Unusual but beautifully made. Excellent.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Very effervescent cloudy gold with a bubbly head. Light cooked apple and baking spice. Insanely carbonated and some cooked apple with a fizzy finish. Carbonation is overwhelming and distracting. Lots of booze in the finish.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(750ml 2019 bottle from the cidery webshop - uses lemon thyme and not lemon verbena now) Pours clear salmon pink with a loose white head that fades but has a little revival. Aroma is heavy on fresh lightly tart aromatic early strawberries, floral bright apples, light citrusy accents, herbal freshness though not loads of thyme per se. Flavour is light sweet and light tart, again nice fresh spring strawberries and smooth floral apples, bright citrus and herb/leafy accents, no plastic strawberry off flavours, light bittering astringency that couples apple tannin and herbs, smooth fruity finish, hint of bitterness. Light body, active carbonation, slightly slick. Very refreshing stuff, good fruit flavours, not too delicate nor in your face. Perfect summer's day joint.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(750ml clear glass bottle from the cidery webshop - no indication of version beyond the special bottle) Pours nearly clear bright gold with a rapidly dissipating white head. Aroma is lightly honeyed semi-tart apple with quite some dephty, a lot of soft floral and herbal notes, subtle wood, light funk, quite delicate on the whole but more smooth than the normal version. Flavour is very lightly sweet and moderately tart apple, somewhere between fresh and baked, wildflower honey, soft herbs, very smooth apple tannins, almost a green apple acidity in the later parts of the sip, slightly lactic, low funk but subtle yeast breadiness, nice floral apple finish with a touch of drying wood giving a white wine vibe. Light to medium body, silky, smooth light bottle condition carbonation. Compared to the normal version of Time & Place, this version is smoother and more balanced with less prominent yeasty character, with a lovely pure apple character.

8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

(750ml 2020 bottle from the cidery webshop) Don't think this is rateable but it's here so... Pours lighly hazed pale straw with an instantly fizzing head of white foam, active bubbles and no lace. Aroma of passionfruit, mangosteen, lychee, berry candy, a touch of peach, white wine vibes obviously, a little funk. Flavour is following the nose really, juicy floral tropical fruit with the passionfruit and lychee vibes to the fore, light but zippy white wine acidity, smooth saline minerality, background of berry candy, subtle grape skin tannic grip, floral tropical aftertaste. Light bodied, filling active carbonation. Super refreshing beverage, again I don't think this is rateable because it's not a cider but RB is the wild west these days anyway. Drinks very much like a really damn good wine spritzer, all the best parts of tropical Sauv blanc in a chuggable sparkling package.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(750ml 2018 bottle from the cidery webshop - now single varietal Hyslop unlike the info here) Pours nearly clear bright orange with a brief but refreshing white ring. Aroma of sweet-tart floral crabapples, earthy leathery funk, slightly perfumed overtones, impression of tannic skins on the nose as well. Flavour is completely dry crabapple, tannic florals, crushed pink grapefruit peels, some dry pears, leathery but dusty more than heavily funky Brett, thick chewy grippy tannins, hint of hot rubber, bit of almost peppery wood or something in the aftertaste, lingering floral tannic grip long into the aftertaste. The opposite of quenching. Medium-bodied, kind of slick, with filling carbonation. A very interesting cider, because it expresses Hyslop so clearly (in a way no other I've tasted has). Not my favourite Revel, but pleased to taste it!

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(750ml bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours nearly clear medium pink-to-blush with basically no head. Aroma of bright juicy sweet-tart floral pears with a nice helping of blueberry and red forest berry aromatics, a little bite of volatile acidity, soft red grape vibes as well give it just a touch of vinousness. Flavour is juicy somewhat sweet and lightly tart pear juice, blueberry and lingonberry, solid florals, good helping of tart wine grape moving-to-vinegar acidity but not excessively acetic, hint of dusty funk into the dry finish. Finish lets the acid back down a touch and gives sweet pear, soft grape tannins, blueberries and a bit of crushed flower petals. Light to medium slick body with average plus carbonation. Definitely a big punch of acid in this one, more than I expected from the grape skins, but the residual pear sugar manages to keep it mostly in check. Very refreshing and I glugged it a bit, but it's pretty complex at the same time.

8

So um 90% white wine with 10% nectarine cider? Well, looks like cloudy riesling. Sweet, dry, sour, apple and citrus, floral, even a bit funky. Pretty damn nice actually.

8

02-04-21 // can. 90% wine and 10% cider. And yes it is very wine forward but with a juicy apple/nectarine fruity aroma to it and some nice carbonation. Tastes lighter than the 10%. Macht Spaß.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

(750ml bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours very lightly hazed pale straw gold with instantly dissipating white bubbles. Aroma of sweet floral apples, lemon curd, intense floral honey, complex white grape and Prunus overtones that definitely recall Vidal table wines, smooth soft funk, light lactic acidity. Flavour is a little less sweet than the nose with fresh crisp sweet-tart McIntosh-like apples, fresh lemons, citrus pith, soft honey and gentle wildflower perfume, more than a little white wine vibe despite not being terribly 'grapey'. Mineral but not heavily crisp, soft floral almost peachy finish with gentle tannins and light dusty funk. Medium bodied, slick and oily, filling carbonation.