Like beer, cider also contains a healthy dose of antioxidants thanks to the apples and apple skin (which contains tannins). It's said that half a pint of cider contains as many antioxidants as a glass of red wine. Again, quite evenly matched.
Yet cider is indeed wine, both in a dictionary sense and, in its purest form, literally: 100% apple and/or pear cider is made exactly like wine, made once a year from nature's bounty, and is redolent of locality ('terroir' to use a winemaking term), the varieties used, the land where the fruit is grown, its climate and