![]() Slightly mischievious, she prefers to enjoy an afternoon nap under the apple trees while the hard working farmhands pick apples. The name Vixin embodies the naughty female fox or perhaps an elegant female employee of the apple orchard. With his expertise and passion, we were able to take the wonderful qualities of our favorite blend from Paris to new heights and create the best cider we have ever tried - Vixin. Luckily, we met the real cider expert - a multi-year gold-medal winner dedicated to the art and craft of making the finest ciders in France. Sadly, the producer of this amazing cider was long gone. Once we found our holy grail, we naturally wanted to make this beautiful product ours. The secret recipe had been passed on by generations of monks to create a delightful, sparkling, refreshing blend with a strong apple base and a glorious smell that transports you to an apple orchard in Normandy. A real, 100% pressed apple juice made from special French cider apples, fermented using a unique yeast from 1789. Finally, we discovered the perfect French blend in a small cafe in Paris. These varied from crazy, whisky barrel aged concoctions of 25% abv, to the cloudy, flat British ciders to the candy-like commercial ciders mixed from concentrated apple juice, water, colors and flavors (no, we don't really consider those real ciders). So off we went, traveling all over the UK, France, Belgium and the US for five years, tasting all the different ciders available. There seemed to be no cider available that we could love so we decided to make our own. ![]() Our mission for a great cider started after we moved from London to New York and found ourselves missing the ciders so commonly available in the UK. ![]() Vixin cider is the product of years of labor, travel, research and testing undertaken to create the perfect cider: fresh, crisp, natural and a delight to drink.
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