WiesenObst Cider Rosé

The cider

This drinks as cider, not as wine in orchard clothing. Nothing here asks for a flute or a Riesling frame.

A food cider, not a picnic soda: apple and perry in the bones, hops for the snap, red fruit for color and grip. Off-dry enough to stay friendly, bright enough to cut through a meal. Modest bitterness shows at the edges rather than as a hop bomb. Serve cold, in a tumbler — not a flute, not a wine glass.

Tart the way Geiger usually is — orchard fruit first, hop bitterness second, and nothing that asks you to pretend it is a Mosel pink. Keep it with food; the bitter-tart edge wants plate more than porch soda. Cider structure, hop snap, red-berry lift: that is the glass. Orchard nose, sweet-sour middle, dry-tart hop finish — cider written as cider. Red berries first, hop edge second, tannin from the red-wine cut third. Tumbler, cold, tart hop at the edge — food cider through and through.