Revel – Slow & Steady

Cider Profile:

Name: Revel – Slow & Steady
Sampled April 2025

Brand:  Revel Cider Co. Type: Flavoured – Botanical/Floral Location of Production: Guelph, ON ABV: 6.8% Website Link: revelcider.com Ingredients: Apple, sumac, golden rod, sulphites Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/A Size(s) available: 750ml (bottle) Availability: Revel retail and online stores, better bottle shops Flavour: Sumac and golden rod Colour:  Cloudy peachy/orange. Red trub. Carbonation: Small, streaming bubbles.

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Strong aroma. Sour, pungent, dank apples. Savoury floral notes. Light citrus.
Initial Taste: Strong bite from acidity and sourness – quickly puckering. Zesty lemon notes from sumac. Peppery. Bone dry apple base that’s dank, funky and has heritage + crab characteristics.
After Taste: Crab apple notes more defined. Sourness slowly dwindles. Savoury floral notes emerge that linger with whispers of sumac and yellow goldenrod remaining. Some film remains.
On ice: Reduced body. Sourness is largely reduced. More floral forward at times.

Additional Notes:  Revel’s Slow & Steady is another floral infused cider from this cidery – this time with sumac and goldenrod. This is a very quickly puckering sour cider right off the top – it may make you wince and salivate. Adding to the sourness is some lemon zest like notes – presumably from the sumac. The apple base is bone dry – seemingly having crab and heritage notes within. The sourness lingers a long time, but as it weakens, some of the savoury floral notes from the golden rod emerge, with a little bit of the sumac punchiness staying. Do not drink if you can’t handle some pungency and bold sourness or drink it on some ice if too strong.

Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 1
Sour – 5
Crisp – 1.5
Dry – 5
Fruity – 4

Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Duntroon – Sumac Cider
More Sour – 
More Dry – 
More Crisp – Grey & Gold – Elderflower

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