Produced in Somerset, Showerings Triple Vintage has been launched with the aim of defining the luxury cider market.
It’s an elegantly dry, gently carbonated, and deeply cultured cider that has been created using techniques requiring as much experience and attention to detail as those used in the creation of fine wines, says the maker.
For its debut, the youthfully light and fresh 2021 vintage has been blended with 2017 and 2018 vintages, then slowly fermented for a mature depth and character.
The apples (predominantly the Dabinett variety) are grown from a single award-winning orchard by an expert horticulturalist before being selected, harvested, and taken to the Showerings’ cider mill, seven miles away. Once pressed, each batch sits and settles for a minimum of four months, allowing the sharper edges of tannins and acidities to soften to the requisite mellow fruitfulness.
The Showering family have been perfecting their cider making skills for more than 170 years, and to create a triple vintage blend they even pioneered a special cool fermentation process — a slow-moving maturation that uses both wild and house yeasts to turn the apples’ natural sugars into alcohol to create complex flavours.
Showerings Triple Vintage is naturally golden in colour with distinctive bittersweet flavours, complemented by notes of hazelnut, cedarwood, red apple, and apricot. It combines the character and complexities of the best wines with cider’s unique ability to refresh and re-invigorate.
Business founder, Nick Showering, said: The ambition for Showerings Triple Vintage is simple — to change the perception of cider drinking and give it a long overdue and deserved place at any Michelin-starred table.”
Head cider maker, Bob Cork, added: “Over the last five years we have overcome many technical challenges to craft a genuine triple vintage cider that is truly exceptional. We have created a new technique for blending different vintages to produce what I believe to be the most complex and refreshing cider on the market.
“After many years working in the cider business, I feel privileged to be part of making such a prestigious cider that has exceeded all of our expectations.”
