Cider mid-pour into a hand-blown glass, carbonation breaking the amber surface, individual bubbles refracting warm light

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Heritage Apple✦Wild Pear✦Native Yeast✦Oak & Clay Vessel✦Small Batch✦Allocated Release✦Farmstead Pressed✦Rosendale, NY✦Heritage Apple✦Wild Pear✦Native Yeast✦Oak & Clay Vessel✦Small Batch✦Allocated Release✦Farmstead Pressed✦Rosendale, NY✦
The Orchard Speaks

Taste with your eyes first.

taste
First pour: chalk and wet stone.
A pause. Then quince paste
and something almost saline—
the memory of rain
on dry orchard grass.
Finish long as October.
sight
Close-up of a heritage apple skin showing visible lenticels, deep red and russet tones, dew still clinging to the surface
sight

2021

First fermented vintage

smell
Orchard rows at golden hour, grass wet underfoot, apple trees heavy with late-season fruit, warm amber light filtering through leaves
smell
Split the pear with your thumbs.
Skin giving way—
juice warm over your knuckles,
the smell so sharp
it makes your eyes water.
Hay bales. Ripe. Gone.
sight
Hand-blown glass filled with hazy amber cider, bubbles rising slowly through the liquid, warm light refracting through the glass
taste

14

Heritage apple varieties

touch
Wooden cider press with fresh-pressed juice running amber through a cloth press, pomace piled at the edges, barn wood in the background
touch
Clay vessel, oak stave.
The yeast knows this cellar.
It has worked here before—
through frost and through thaw,
patient as the stone
under the orchard floor.
smell

9 mo.

Average fermentation

sight
Wild pears clustered on a branch, small and irregular, skin speckled with russet, dappled autumn light through the canopy
Current Releases

The Bottles.

Each bottle carries its vintage, vessel, and variety — so you learn the language while you browse. Sold-out vintages join the Allocation List.

Dark amber still cider in a hand-blown glass bottle with a wax seal, set on weathered barn wood
cider

Kingston Black

Still Cider

2022French Oak BarriqueKingston Black Apple

Chalk and wet stone, quince paste on the mid-palate. Long saline finish.

$28
Hazy amber pétillant naturel cider in a swing-top bottle, condensation on the glass, orchard background
Limited
cider

Foxwhelp

Pétillant Naturel

2023Clay AmphoraFoxwhelp Apple

Wild strawberry and hay bale. Prickle of carbonation, tannin like biting a pip.

$32
Pale golden perry in a tall elegant bottle, backlit to show the haze of unfiltered liquid

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perry

Butt Pear

Traditional Perry

2021Neutral Oak FoudreButt Pear

Rose water and pear skin. Delicate and long, with a finish of white pepper and chalk.

$38Notify Me
Warm amber cider poured into a ceramic cup, steam rising, orchard in soft focus behind
cider

Médaille d'Or

Heritage Blend

2023Stainless + ClayMedaille d'Or Apple

Cidre Normand energy — cream, baked apple, a whisper of funk from the native yeast.

$24
Rosé-tinted cider in a wide-mouthed jar, deep pink-amber color, sunlight streaming through
Limited
cider

Stoke Red

Skin-Contact Rosé Cider

2022Terracotta JarStoke Red Apple

Dried hibiscus, ripe cherry, pomace. Tannic and alive. Drinks like a natural wine.

$34
Golden perry in a hand-blown bottle, stoppered with a cork and wax, resting on oak barrel staves

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perry

Moorcroft

Wild-Ferment Perry

2022Old Oak BarrelMoorcroft Pear

Honeysuckle and barnyard. Creamy bubble, finish of beeswax and green walnut.

$42Notify Me
Rustic taproom interior with wooden trestle tables, linen cloths, afternoon light slanting through barn windows, cider glasses on the table

Fill your growler.

Saturdays & Sundays, 11am – 5pm

The Taproom

Ninety minutes from the city.
Worth every mile.

The taproom door opens every weekend. Bring a friend, bring a growler. We pour from the cask, from the keg, and sometimes from a single barrel that won't be bottled at all.

Hours

Sat – Sun, 11am to 5pm

Address

44 Orchard Lane, Rosendale, NY 12472

Growler Fill

64oz fills, all current pours

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Orchard rows at dusk, soft amber light, rows of apple trees extending to the horizon
The Allocation List

Some bottles
never reach
the shop floor.

Sold-out vintages, barrel samples, and first-crush releases go directly to the Allocation List. Bottle shop owners and sommeliers receive priority access. Weekend pilgrims get the rest.

Currently Sold Out

Butt Pear

2021 · Neutral Oak Foudre

perry

Moorcroft

2022 · Old Oak Barrel

perry

Kingston Black

2020 · Chestnut Barrel

cider

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