Eden Specialty Ciders - Falstaff Ice Cider (375 mL)
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Eden Specialty Ciders - Falstaff Ice Cider (375 mL)
You won't regret trying this exquisite, highly limited small batch of aged Ice Cider. This very special release is made with a blend of 15 heirloom apple varieties grown by Eden and other nearby farmers in Northern Vermont. Fruit from the 2015 harvest season was naturally cold-concentrated during their cold winter months prior to fermentation. By removing pure ice from the juice as it freezes, the flavors and sugars are concentrated resulting in a sweeter, more intense flavor profile. Fermentation was arrested prior to completion to preserve some residual sweetness. The cider was then aged 7 years in a French oak barrel.
This aged ice cider is the product of a little bit of oak over a very long time, rather than a lot of new oak in a short time. The difference is remarkable. There is almost no oaky tannin character. Rather the micro-oxygenation provided by the barrels has worked its slow magic to take the intense apple flavors of the ice cider and imbue them with richer, more complex dried fruit flavors - golden raisin, fig, and apricot. The French oak provides a subtle vanilla toffee component, and it is all underpinned by a back-bone of acidity characteristic of apples grown in Eden's Northern Vermont climate.
Pair with a warm fire on a cold winter night, sip around a campfire during the summer, or enjoy a sip with a nibble of some world class blue cheese.
TASTING NOTES: This cider is delightfully sweet and complex. Aromatics of wood, apple butter, toffee, and soft cheese. Intensely flavorful with nice juicy acidity that balances the sweetness very well. Great body carries juicy apple. Notes of walnut, tart cherry, baked apple, golden raisin, apricot, fig.
- Dry-to-Sweet Scale: Sweet
- Tannins: Medium
- Acidity: Medium Plus
- 🍎🍐 Varieties: Apple Variety Info Unavailable
- Features: Blend, Barrel Aged, and Still (Uncarbonated)
- ABV: 10.0%
- Format: 375 mL Bottle
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Regular price$55.00
$55.00
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