£10.99

Warm.....this is bone dry, light/medium bodied, acidic with pungent blackcurrant and Sancerre like acorn/nettles flavour with some underlying stoney minerality. It's slightly more expensive stablemate is called Life from Stone in recognition of the stones over which the water has to pass to water the vineyard.



Chilled the blackcurrant and nettles are lost.

Don't chill this wine.

Buy unscrew pour drink.

Goosey !! Wursbintoo ? Welcome back.

Guess I have to try this vintage. Have had some good years of this and some pretty rough ones.

Maj have it a quid cheaper (2) but it's '12.

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Goosey !! Wursbintoo ? Welcome back.

Eyesbintoo lots of places. Recently I 'ave mostly been to a lot of farmers markets and eating lots of sausages and venison burgers. Last year at about this time I got into real ales. I have been trying to get into ' proper ' cider. I can't. Appley tat and pear twaddle.

Guess I have to try this vintage. Have had some good years of this and some pretty rough ones.

It has been rather tart and citrussy these last two years. More vin du pays/Touraine than Wairau/Sancerre

Maj have it a quid cheaper (2) but it's '12.

Winemaker insists that each vintage will peak at about 4 years. He might be right but I would leave the 12 at any price.

Warm this is nicer than both JE 13 and VM WR 13. Both of these wines will be much better in 18 months though.

Sore point with me too. Can't find one decent unaduterated cider in any of the supermarkets. Tesco discontinued their best cider recently. Vintage oak-barreled own-brand jobby. Gorn.
Cider has gone the way of tv. All soaps, reality, snooker and soccer. Kraaaaap.

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Had to try one. They had both '12 & '13 on the shelf all mixed up.
A powerful beasty, enjoyed, but probably a degree or so colder than 'straight out of the bottle'.
Should it go on offer, I fancy a few to keep for a while.

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Bristol Rovers got relegated to the Conference. Is this good, Ba. Cardiff down, Wolves up. I challenge GK to a dual before kick off at next season's Cardiff Wolves game at the Cardiff City stadium. Leek v parsnip. My leek is huge....but bends in the middle.

2nd bottle

Very lightly chilled.

Lower acidity blunted the razor's edge. More subdued flavour. Same flavours but more subtle. Hint of bacon.

Very nice is this.

Bloomin' yo-yo soccer. Bristol R are a non-entity. Might as well play shove-apenny.
My Springfield was fine on day 2 as well. Just seems a tad 'young', will get some more.

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10 months after first bottling. Intense blackcurrant and wet stones. Not quite velvety and lush but the acidity is fading. Very good but will get better.

I have 13 bottles to keep.