REVEL CIDER
Guelph, Ontario
Revel Cider was born out of a love affair with natural fermentation that Tariq Ahmed discovered during a summer internship living on an organic vegetable farm. During his downtime on the farm he played around in the outdoor kitchen and experimented with their old basket press, making naturally fermented pickles, mulberry wine, and in the fall came cider.
Through his own enthusiastic naiveté, the story of Revel Cider began. Falling for characterful native yeast fermentations, there were no rules to abide by – instead, allowing everything to ferment with the organisms indigenous to the fruit and the cidery, impressing a sense of time and place on each harvest.
The fermentations have always been oxidative, more out of necessity than anything else. They couldn’t afford stainless steel at the beginning, so they started with plastic and oak vessels. Learning to guide native yeast and bacteria with exclusively oxidative equipment has been an absorbing journey. Currently, they age the ciders and wines on tannic apple pomace and grape marc, protecting them from oxygen while infusing texture and salinity.
By allowing the microorganisms to breathe in their youth, and to slowly digest plant material as they age, a vibrant expression of life emerges.
These ferments are bursting with life and vitality. They are true expressions of the fermented fruit, herbs, flowers, and their skins. The availability will be forever changing.
Out of Province is always pre-order. Ask for the current selection by email. connect@masseywines.com.
TIME & PLACE
A Farmhouse Cider. Time and Place is the purest expression of the native yeasts from Revel. It’s bright and tart, a blend of apple and wild yeast activity. Long aging on crabapple pomace coaxes out quiet tannins and ripe orchard aromatics. Restrained yet elegant, this is the cider Tariq always wanted to make. 6%.
Time & PLace 24 x 355ml / +388725 / $4.00
SIDRO
Sidro is a UK-style cider with natural apple sugars to balance the acidity and soft tannins. Fermentation was arrested by chilling the cider, shocking the wild microflora and capturing natural sugars. Afterwards, it was blended with a Kingston Black cider to add tannin and texture. Bright malic acidity, restrained apple tannins, all balanced by a few grams of natural apple sugars. It’s fresh, juicy and delicious. 5.8%
SIDRO 24 x 473ml / +689714 / $4.95
SOIF
To make Soif, Revel blended two spontaneously fermented ciders aged on cherries and strawberries and added almost one tonne of red wine skins for an extra month. It’s a red fruit bonanza. Rotberger and Montmorency Cherries meld into plush textural bliss. Strawberry aromas waft over it all. The fruit acids here are bright and lively.
Soif 12 x 750ml / +474382 / $15.80
CHANTER LA POIRE
A Canadian take on a French-Normandy style Perry, inspired by a maker Tariq met during a trip to France in 2022. Made with a blend of tannic, foraged pears, and culinary fruit grown in Niagara. Fruity and rich with the perfect level of sweetness, it’s off-dry, lightly sparkling with fine tannins, and a bit of a rare treat in the world of Revel where everything else has zero RS. If you love good perry, do not sleep on this one!
CHANTER LA POIRE 12 x 750ml / +714028 / $17.50
CHAMBARINE
Chambarine is a collab made between Revel Cider and the Grape Witches in Toronto! Apple cider meets juicy nectarines and the hybrid grape Chambourcin in this multi-fruit blend. Fermented totally dry.
CHAMBARINE 12 x 750ml / +713969 / $17.50
PEAS IN A POD
Cider with blackcurrants, De Chaunac and Cabernet Franc. 2022 vintage. Huge blackcurrant aromas, with underlying notes of vanilla and wildflowers. De Chaunac grapes lend acidity, while the Cab Franc brings tannin and complexity. This bottle is the best damn ‘Lambrusco’ you’ve ever had xo.
PEAS IN A POD 12 x 750ml / +264730 / $15.30
| REVEL CIDER | SIZE | TYPE | SKU | Price | CASE | AVAILABILITY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time & Place | 355ml can | Farm Cider | 388725 | $3.81 | 24 | ✔ |
| Sidro | 500ml can | English Cider | 689714 | $4.56 | 24 | ✔ |
| Chanter la Poire | 355ml can | Perry | 458367 | $15.80 | 12 | ✔ |
| Soif | 750ml | Cider / Wine | 474382 | $15.80 | 12 | ✔ |
| Peas in a Pod | 750ml | Black Currants | 264730 | $15.80 | 12 | ✔ |
| Chambarine | 750ml | Cider / Wine | 713969 | $15.80 | 12 | ✔ |