Erik and Benford of Floral Terranes source apples from small orchards on Long Island to create true small-batch ciders as a passion project. Restoration Farm' in Bethpage is the source for the Roxbury Russet, Black Gilliflower, and Newtown Pippin apples used in this cider. Their trees are all on 30+ year-old rootstock, and are totally unsprayed and organically managed by hand.

The cider was made of fully ripened "drops" as opposed to fruit picked or shaken from the tree by hand. The fruit was harvested in late September, fermented in tank, and racked into barrel towards the end of primary fermentation in mid November. Aged for 10-months in neutral barrels before bottling at 6.8% abv. 

This still and dry cider is the exact opposite of your typical modern American cider. NOT carbonated at all, NOT sweet at all; this drinks like a white wine but with all the complexity of the unique apples used to make it. The drop apples at Restoration Farm fall onto ground cover of various herbs, which impart cooling aromatics with notes of mint and thyme.