It’s not a blend of apples and pears, it’s a cider plain and simple. Actually it’s a single variety cider made with pear apple, a variety rediscovered by James Evans and Mary Martin as a single tree growing in a derelict orchard in Golant and named because it looks like a pear. Imaginative. To the best of their knowledge, Vagrant are the only producers making a single variety cider with these apples. They will definitely be making more.

It’s dry and still with a lovely round, tannic middle, pairs very nicely with strong cheese. Fresh as a spring breeze. This iteration is in addition to their normal bottling – there was a load of this fruit around for the harvest, so they decided to try it as a pet nat.

This is the result. There is also the normal still bottling, but try this for some fizz alternative!