Wilding Taynton Squash Perry

ABV. 7.9% | 750ML | VEGAN | GLUTEN FREE

Rich, complex and unusual single variety perry

Taynton Squash is a pear that captured the imagination of Sam & Beccy as soon as they started working with the pear orchard in Chew Stoke. The trees are the most magnificent in the orchard, large and healthy with great trunks, and the fruit is tiny, the size of cherries, and falls 15 metres onto the ground. But what fruit!

Taynton Squash is a pear that captured the imagination of Sam & Beccy as soon as they started working with the pear orchard in Chew Stoke. The trees are the most magnificent in the orchard, large and healthy with great trunks, and the fruit is tiny, the size of cherries, and falls 15 metres onto the ground. But what fruit! Very sweet and very aromatic, with huge complexity in the aromas and a classy acid. Picking the fruit is extremely slow, maybe 30% the rate of apple picking, and the juice yield is not great from the small pears. All in all it was a vast amount of work to make just one 225 litre cask of this nectar. Not commercially recommended but an irresistible prospect with a good crop on the trees in 2022. The result is quite unlike most perries: rich, complex and intense with some wild aromatics.

Region: Somerset, UK

Blend: SV Taynton squash

Fermentation: Wild ferment in barrel

Maturation: In barrel

TASTING NOTES

On the nose – Pear skin, eucalyptus, lavender oil, good quality hay

On the palate – Lush sweetness, slight bitterness in the tannins, herbal notes. 

PAIR WITH

Dates, funky blue cheese and allopurinol

Fruit Bats - Humbug Mountain Song

Serve chilled