2022-2 Long Night Pommeau

2022-2 Long Night Pommeau

Apple
VA - Shenandoah Valley
$28.00 / 375 mL Bottle
  • Alcohol 19%
Long Night is our winter pommeau (port-style fortified apple wine). We do a light fermentation on a blend of Harrison and Dabinett apples before adding eau de vie (un-aged brandy) distilled from our Dry River Reserve to increase the alcohol percentage above the fermentation tolerance. This arrests fermentation, leaving a naturally sweet yet high alcohol and stable mixture. In this third release of Long Night, these bottles were aged 24 months in A. Smith Bowman barrels to produce a port-style cider. The result is a wonderfully complex fortified dessert apple wine. Strong notes of stewed apple, butterscotch, caramel, vanilla, berry, and brandy on the nose and palate with a natural assertive sweetness, balanced tannin, and warming alcohol.