Sparkling Dry Fine Cider  

This is the 2023 edition of Raison d'Être. 2023 was an unusual year in the cidery: a cool, rainy season produced Dabinett and Bisquet apples with higher acidity and gentle fruit character, but lower alcohol. The Raison they've been able to craft is a more accessible offering than the intensity of the 2022 vintage. The aroma of freshly milled apples lifts straight out of the glass, accentuated by some gentle vanilla character from the oak. On the texture it's soft and rolling, with apricot, apple and gentle spice all working together in harmony. It's dry, bittersweet cider, just as we love it.

Raison d’Être is the quintessential expression of cidermaking on the Ross farm. Their philosophy in a single cider: clean, ripe, bittersweet apples wild fermented in oak casks, matured patiently and quietly, and bottle conditioned. This is a cider with drinkability, complexity, and identity, that takes you on a journey from the first sip to the last, with the flavours evolving and developing across the palate. Abv 7.4%