Wilding Cider Dabinet & Foxwhelp (2022)

Still Sweet Fine Cider

This wonderful combination of two famous cider varieties has returned, and this time we have a highly aromatic, sweet scented cider which has been bottled young to capture those ripe sugars, pillowy tannins and excellent vintage fruit qualities from the 2022 season.

Unlike the previous iteration of this blend from Wilding in 2019 which was much drier, this vintage showed from the early stages that it wasn't going to continue its fermentation to the very end. It has been bottled with residual sweetness, the exceptional nature of the vintage really comes to the fore, showing marmalade and kumquat character rather than Dabinett's usual orange flesh, and stewed strawberries rather than Foxwhelp's usual fresh strawberry.

The cider is sweet and rich but has the tannin and acid to balance that out. A real gastronomic cider. Alc. 5.3% £61.00 GBP £112.00 GBP Add to Order

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Anyone who tried our 2019 Dabinett & Foxwhelp cider will be interested to try this entirely different take on the blend from 2022.

2022 gave high sugar levels and intense aromatics, together with elevated tannins of exceptional quality. We were curious to see what this fruit would give us and so made up a blend of 25% Foxwhelp and 75% Dabinett as before.

Quickly it was apparent that this ferment was too slow to be viable for dry cider and so we racked once in the winter to keep some residual sugar (Rural Method). Although there is much varietal character on display,
the exceptional nature of the vintage really comes to the fore, showing marmalade and kumquat character rather than Dabinett's usual orange flesh, and stewed strawberries rather than Foxwhelp's usual fresh strawberry.

The cider is sweet and rich but has the tannin and acid to balance that out. A real gastronomic cider.

ABV 5.3%

Description This wonderful combination of two famous cider varieties has returned, and this time we have a highly aromatic, sweet scented cider which has been bottled young to capture those ripe sugars, pillowy tannins and excellent vintage fruit qualities from the 2022 season.

Unlike the previous iteration of this blend from Wilding in 2019 which was much drier, this vintage showed from the early stages that it wasn’t going to continue its fermentation to the very end. It has been bottled with residual sweetness, the exceptional nature of the vintage really comes to the fore, showing marmalade and kumquat character rather than Dabinett’s usual orange flesh, and stewed strawberries rather than Foxwhelp’s usual fresh strawberry.

The cider is sweet and rich but has the tannin and acid to balance that out. A real gastronomic cider. Still, sweet cider. 750ml. 5.3%