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At Christmas, I bought a few bottles of cider on special. Unfortunately, they tasted bad, the flavor was a bit sharp and had a bad aftertaste. We had to mix it with other beverages to make it palatable. It was the embarrassment of the holiday season.

In April, I saw we still had a bottle of the cider in the wine cabinet, so I put it in the fridge. It has been in there until this weekend. We opened the bottle preparing ourselves for punishment, however the cider was excellent! I am trying to figure out what happened! I don't know a lot about the process of making cider. Were the other bottles opened to early after production? Was this bottle a different batch? It is a mystery that will haunt me.