(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.

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.

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.

(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.

(750ml 2020 bottle from the Revel webshop) Pours clear salmon pink with a decent white head that’s stable. Aroma is rich deep pear, dried cherry, floral grapes, some crab-apple tart punch, woody barrel undertones, slight hint of fruit vinegar, funky earthy hops giving a lambic-esque feel, a little lychee-type tropical fruit too from the Gewurz I guess. Flavour is pretty bright, lightly to moderately tart, sweet pears and berry wine gums, tannic crabapple, floral tropical fruit undertones and white wine, soft barrel tones, finish is berry-forward and lightly bitter with good fine tannins, plush wine, some pear residual sugars, a little earth and round buttery oak. Medium-bodied, oily, above average bottle conditioned carbonation. This is definitely sweeter than the typical Revel bottling (interestingly the 2019 pineapple collab was unusually sour), but it’s extremely juicy as a result and there’s enough tartness to temper things. The combination of different elements is super-complex and knits together really nicely. Delicious. I wish Revel made more beer collaborations in general.

(750ml 2019 bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours clear deep gold with a rapidly fizzing white head and no lace, but very active bubbling. Aroma is high on sour apricot candies, fresh apricots, very herbal mint from an almost basil like cultivar, something surprisingly like a barrel-aged spirit twang, soft acetic edges, apricot and apple skins, moderate wet hay funk. Flavour is rather highly acidic with a lot of sour but very ripe apricots, apricot candy, something like sour berry candies too, herbal mint is quite prominent from mid-sip but no real menthol component, soft funk. Long candied sour apricot finish with soft apple tannins and apricot skin, herbal somewhat basil like mint again, very complex aftertaste. Light to medium bodied with slightly slick texture and filling active carb. Interesting vibes here, was expecting very high acidity and it was more drinkable than I feared it might be, though if you hate volatile acidity it's not for you. The mint is really lively and the fruitiness works well with it. Tasty stuff!

(500ml 2017 bottle from the cidery webshop; this vintage is single barrel 18mo Bartlett perry) Pours lightly hazed pale straw with an ephemeral white head. Aroma of pears soaked in Riesling, rich lemon curd, petrol, fruit skins, moderate sweetness and light lactic twang, wet stone minerals, good oaky structure, horseblanket funk. Flavour is again a perry/Riesling hybrid but with a bit more Bartlett pear sweetness coming through, lactic lemony white wine, good mineral freshness, light petrol, quite some oak structure building in the middle, leathery and lightly tannic. The pears and white wine return in the finish, soft minerality too, before a long oaky buttery finish with vanilla, light Brett hits and a distinct white wine vibe. Probably the most vinous perry I've tried despite not having anything but pear in it. Stellar.