Revel Cider - Line Drawing
Line Drawing is a cider we aged on orange wine skins. Here's how we did it.
First we made orange wine, by fermenting Vidal on it's skins last fall. We took those Vidal skins and added them to a single varietal cider made from Ellis Bitter apples: a U.K. bittersweet apple originating in the 1800s.
The tannins of each fruit have woven together into a delicious textural tapestry.
Then we aged cider on those wine soaked skins for a few more months, until right before bottling.
- About Revel Cider
- Tasting Notes
- Pairings
Revel Cider & ibi wines started in 2014 as a solo passion project. Imagine our excitement when it turned out that, hey, lots of folks are fermentation enthusiasts!
By 2021, our team was seven people strong — with over 1000 cases of Revel cans and bottles shipped to discerning drinkers every month.
Our characterful native yeast fermentations explore the endless flavours Ontario has to offer. Combining farm-grown and foraged fruits, discovering what the fermentation process yields, and aiming to bring out the best of each ingredient is what makes us excited to come to work every day. (Well, that, and all the incredible smells.)
It drinks like an echo of orange wine, but a big echo. It's weighty and textured, just like you'd expect from a cider that spent months on wine skins.
Ellis Bitter is a low acid apple with fine grained tannins—the perfect base for the apricot/honey notes in our Vidal. There's a farmyard note too, but not too funky. It's like standing at the fence line of an abandoned orchard.
Line Drawing triggers memories of stripping the flowers off of a yarrow plant, tannic white tea, ripe peaches and farmhouse honeycomb all rolled into one.
It's is always one of our favourite tiny, tiny releases of the year. This year is no different.
Good Company, Sunshine, Summer Salad
About Revel Cider
Revel Cider & ibi wines started in 2014 as a solo passion project. Imagine our excitement when it turned out that, hey, lots of folks are fermentation enthusiasts!
By 2021, our team was seven people strong — with over 1000 cases of Revel cans and bottles shipped to discerning drinkers every month.
Our characterful native yeast fermentations explore the endless flavours Ontario has to offer. Combining farm-grown and foraged fruits, discovering what the fermentation process yields, and aiming to bring out the best of each ingredient is what makes us excited to come to work every day. (Well, that, and all the incredible smells.)
Tasting Notes
It drinks like an echo of orange wine, but a big echo. It's weighty and textured, just like you'd expect from a cider that spent months on wine skins.
Ellis Bitter is a low acid apple with fine grained tannins—the perfect base for the apricot/honey notes in our Vidal. There's a farmyard note too, but not too funky. It's like standing at the fence line of an abandoned orchard.
Line Drawing triggers memories of stripping the flowers off of a yarrow plant, tannic white tea, ripe peaches and farmhouse honeycomb all rolled into one.
It's is always one of our favourite tiny, tiny releases of the year. This year is no different.
Pairings
Good Company, Sunshine, Summer Salad