Multi Vintage & Mixed Barrel Aged Cider

Inspired by a passage in the Herefordshire Pomona that spoke of the long aging potential of the mighty Foxwhelp apple, Little Pomona been filling barrels with it each vintage that passes and leaving them to mature, in a sort of Solera type system.

Each year they draw off some of the oldest liquids and top them up with the next oldest liquid and so on until all the barrels are full again.

Act 3 brings together the very oldest components of the solera into an intriguing, cerebral creation. Vivid orange-gold in colour, the nose offers up sweet wood, orange oil, purple flowers and subtle smoke. In the mouth it’s plushly textured, with the once raw acids beautifully polished over time, serving to intensify the flavours of candy, blueberry, mulberry and candied citrus. 

The scent of blue flowers, violets predominantly, play across the palate which is noticeably saline and which reveals a hint of tannin and smoke on the finish.

This is a beautiful, late night, contemplative sort of cider and one of very few made in this style in the world. Alc 7% vol.