Patois Cider Quaker Run Orchard

Fantastic Pet-Nat Cider from the Quaker Run Orchard in Madison Co. Virginia. Fresh and tangy sour apple nose, really green and lovely. Round pear and green melon fruit on the palate, with a Madarin orange tang and a super clean finish. Soulful and satisfying.

Patois Cider is based in Crozet, Virginia in the heart of the historic apple country - Virginia has a deep history of apple cultivation, from colonial homesteads to the post-Civil War boom in production and exportation. The project is run by Patrick Collins and his partner Danielle LeCompte, and they completed their first commercial vintage in 2019. The focus is on producing ciders that express the wild fruit and terroir of small pockets of Virginia. Everything is hand harvest, no spray practices in an old-growth orchard, and fermenting with little/no SO2.