Find & Foster Appellation

Description Pale straw gold with exceptionally fine champagne-like bubbles

The unique Sandstone geology of the Exe valley is at the forefront of this bright, vibrant cider, where prominent sandstone minerality and salinity combine with red apple skin, honey and beeswax.

Apples : A field blend of carefully selected, uncommon & often unidentifiable dessert and culinary apples chosen for their bright, fresh acidity (alongside a handful of sweet Devon cider apples to smooth & round), all growing in our fostered orchards surrounding the river Exe, where diverse wild flowers and grasses flourish below the trees, grazed by our flock of Shropshire sheep or an orchard owner’s calves.

Fermentation: we always allow primary fermentation to happen spontaneously in stainless steel with no additions to give the purest reflection of the Exe valley terroir and unique apple varieties. After nine months the resulting vin clair were blended and bottled with Champagne yeast to develop a fine mousse, then left to rest for just over two years on the Champagne yeast lees in a cool, dark, Devon barn where the thick sandstone walls maintain a constant temperature year round.

After two years the long, slow process of hand riddling & disgorgement begin; only a few hundred bottles can be riddled at one time, therefore our releases are intermittent and you may notice small changes over time where the time spent on champagne yeast and resulting autolytic character develop. 750ml. 8%.

Sparkling Dry Traditional Method Fine Cider 

 

A harmonious & balanced cuvée made from a mixture of fully ripe hand picked varieties, from orchards fostered by makers Polly & Mat in the Exe Valley, Devon.  It’s a field blend from the 2019 harvest, consisting of equal parts f rom each of the orchards, blended together to enhance the quality of the individual parts; giving more layered nuance & complexity.

 

The resulting cider is delicate & harmonious with creamy bubbles, honey & acacia on the nose, & lingering fruity flavours of green apple on the palate, & lovely bright golden colour. This is a true celebration bottle, made by an incredible ethos - swap out the grower Champagne for it, it's exquisite.  Alc. 8% vol.

You can also find this in  our  Traditional  Method Selection,  along with all of the bottles mentioned recently in the FT article:  Is cider the next champagne?   by Alice Lascelles, read it  HERE. 


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Description A sparkling dry traditional method cider.

A harmonious & balanced cuvée made from a mixture of fully ripe hand picked varieties, from orchards fostered by makers Polly & Mat in the Exe Valley, Devon. It’s a field blend from the 2019 harvest, consisting of equal parts from each of the orchards, blended together to enhance the quality of the individual parts; giving more layered nuance & complexity.

The resulting cider is delicate & harmonious with creamy bubbles, honey & acacia on the nose, & lingering fruity flavours of green apple on the palate, & lovely bright golden colour. This is a true celebration bottle, made by an incredible ethos – swap out the Champagne for it, it’s exquisite. 750ml. 8%.