Vintage Reserve, Sheppy’s Cider

We source some of our cider from Sheppy’s Farm, just outside Taunton. Guy’s dad has been dragging him and his family there on trips back to the West Country ever since he was a kid, so when we looked for a proper West Country cider, this was already programmed into Guy’s DNA.

The stuff that Sheppy’s make now is very different from the scrumpy that Guy remebers his dad trying to get them into when they were teenagers. Their Vintage Reserve cider is the most rustic of the Sheppy’s range that we stock. It’s got that mix of clean, crisp and dry with a hint of apple sweetness, but what gives this cider unique depth and complexity is the minimum of 6 months that it spends in oak vats, smoothing and rounding its rougher edges.

It’s also our strongest Sheppy’s Cider at 7.4% ABV… ’tis proper, this un.