Kingston Black Sparkling Cider
Bottle Fermented Sparkling Cider
A dry, complex cider with a sharp fruit finish. Good enough to grace any dinner table (8%) - £6.50
This cider is very dry. Jilly Goolden on BBC Food & Drink described the Kingston Black as one of the, if not the best, English Cider. "This has got muscles, this has got brawn, this has got a hairy chest. I think it's gorgeous," she said.
Produced by 'Traditional Method' which in the past was known as 'Method Champenoise'. This creates an elegant dry cider with tiny bubbles which the Sunday Times wine correspondent claimed rivalled the finest of French wines
John Worlidge in his Treatise of Cider published in 1678 mentions bottle fermentation.. "it probably make it better than ever it was before, especially if it were but a little acid, and not eager", (sic) he also writes about laying the bottles in racks so the yeast falls to the cork. This was all some 40 years before Champagne was first recorded!
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