Stone fruit is nature’s quiet luxury — fruits with a pit for a heartbeat and a talent for tasting like sunshine wrapped in velvet. Peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries: the whole fragrant, soft-skinned constellation. Peaks & Pints’ Monday Stone Fruit Cider Flight turns that orchard royalty into a five-glass symphony, each pour a different dialect of summer memory and autumn desire. These are ciders that lean in close instead of shouting, ciders that glow instead of blaze — plum drifting through rainlight, nectarine humming with July warmth, cherry dressed in glam-rock velvet, peach strutting like a Bellini starlet, blackberry sauntering in because bramble fruit always crashes the party. Together they’re a reminder that stone fruit never really leaves; it simply ripens into something deeper, moodier, and worthy of worship as the days grow short.
Peaks & Pints Monday Stone Fruit Cider Flight
Seattle Cider VIVID Ripe Plum
4.2% ABV | Light Cider with Washington Apples and Plum | Seattle, WA
Seattle Cider‘s VIVID Ripe Plum floats into the glass like a watercolor — delicate, low-ABV, and tuned for drinkers who prefer nuance over noise. Washington apples frame the sip with quiet clarity, while plum drapes a lavender-tinged softness across every edge, part orchard breeze, part summer evening slipping toward twilight. The aroma murmurs in floral notes and soft fruit, never rushing, never insisting. On the palate, it stays crisp and feather-light, letting the plum’s gentle tang glow against the apple’s steady snap. It may be the subtlest cider in the lineup, but it’s also the most quietly disarming — proof that brightness doesn’t have to shout to be heard.
Yonder Cider Palisades
6.5% ABV | Blackberry, Sage, and Mixed-Apple Cider | Seattle, WA
Palisades arrives with the confidence of a fruit that knows it belongs, even when it isn’t stone fruit at all. Yonder builds its base from Fuji, Honeycrisp, Roxbury Russet, Dabinett, and a few red-fleshed wildcards, then lets Pacific Northwest blackberries stain everything a deep, late-summer purple. A drift of sage adds an herbal, dusk-soft whisper. The aroma blends sun-warm berries and a hint of wildness; the flavor pulls orchard brightness through the bramble’s darker gravity. Dry, layered, and aromatic, Palisades drinks like a sunset deciding between gold and violet — and choosing both.
Tumalo Cider Nectarine
6.5% ABV | Nectarine-Infused Apple Cider | Tumalo, OR
Tumalo Cider’s Nectarine opens like a daydream warmed on the windowsill — crisp apple meeting ripe nectarine in a seamless, sunlit kiss. A soft wave of stone fruit rises on the nose, hinting at July afternoons and juice running down your knuckles. Each sip stays clean and composed: apple structure holding steady while nectarine adds a silky flourish of flesh and tang. No syrup, no heaviness — just smooth, radiant balance. It’s the kind of cider that doesn’t announce itself so much as materialize, reminding you that summer doesn’t leave; it lingers.
Incline Cider Imperial Tart Cherry
8.5% ABV | Imperial Cherry Cider | Auburn, WA
Incline Cider‘s Imperial Tart Cherry makes no attempt at subtlety — it strides in on ruby legs and starts rearranging the furniture. Built on a taut Northwest apple base, it surges with both sour and sweet cherries, a double strike that paints the glass in electric reds. The nose pops with juicy sharpness; the sip follows with equal parts bite and bloom, tart enough to make you grin through the pucker. Despite the high octane, it finishes dry and dangerously repeatable. Think stone fruit gone glam: bold, bright, a little unruly, and absolutely determined to steal the spotlight.
Avid Cider Tuesday Cocktail Club Peach Bellini
10.5% ABV | Peach Bellini-Style Hard Cider | Bend, OR
Tuesday Cocktail Club Peach Bellini doesn’t walk — it swans. Avid Cider takes a clean apple base and drenches it in ripe peach until the pour glows like a gold-lit sunrise. The first sip leans full Bellini: plush, juicy, decadently smooth, with apple acidity chiming in just before things run away into dessert territory. Potent but elegant, it’s a cider that revels in glamour, a little bit orchard and a little bit cocktail bar, all wrapped in Monday-defying confidence. Subtle? Not for a second. Irresistible? Absolutely.
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