100% Newtown Pippin apples from Restoration Farm in Bethpage, NY. This orchard supplies fruit from trees with 30+ year-old rootstock, and are totally unsprayed. The cider was made of fully ripened "drops" as opposed to fruit picked or shaken from the tree by hand. Harvested throughout the month of October, fermented in tank and racked into barrel towards the end of primary fermentation in mid November for aging. 7.3% abv.