Eve's Cidery - Albee Hill 2024 (750 mL)
Eve's Cidery's Albee Hill is an absolutely exquisite still (uncarbonated) cider, released almost annually from Eve's. Made with a blend of several cider apple varieties grown in a single orchard block on Albee Hill on Eve's farm. This 2024 vintage is the first release of the cider in over 2 years after a late freeze led to a total crop loss for Eve's in 2022, and a light crop in 2023. The blend varies annually based on how the trees produce (most apples produce larger crops every other year) - but it's always one of our favorite annual releases. This cider usually has considerable aging potential, so it can be a fun bottle to collect and compare vintages over time. From Eve's: "It's always a delight to sample our way through barrels and tanks, to intuitively create a blend, and then to find that is "tastes like Albee Hill". How is that possible when the varietal makeup varies bottlign to bottling? Could it be magical terroir of this steep and lonesome orchard? This year's Albee Hill w