Garden Gate 2023
Alpenfire Cider in Port Townsend, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Cider - Dry Regular|
Score
6.89
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Alpenfire Cider's Garden Gate is a limited release, small batch cider from the cidery's Burnt Branch Reserve Series. Alpenfire's Burnt Branch Series is mostly reserved for their own Cider Club members and for pouring at their orchard based tasting room in Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula. Snag this while you can!
Made from a blend of apples & pears growing just inside their garden's gate. Alpenfire Cider was the first certified organic cidery in the Western U.S. This blend includes organic apples (early Fuji, Kings, Liberty, and Red Gravenstein) and Perry Pears (Blakeny, Hendre Huffcapp, and Niijisseki). This batch is from the 2023 harvest. Dark gold in color, lightly tannic and complex with just a hint of residual sugars from the pear (drinks off-dry). Delightful.
Made from a blend of apples & pears growing just inside their garden's gate. Alpenfire Cider was the first certified organic cidery in the Western U.S. This blend includes organic apples (early Fuji, Kings, Liberty, and Red Gravenstein) and Perry Pears (Blakeny, Hendre Huffcapp, and Niijisseki). This batch is from the 2023 harvest. Dark gold in color, lightly tannic and complex with just a hint of residual sugars from the pear (drinks off-dry). Delightful.
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7.5
SaltyGrog (4618) reviewed Garden Gate 2023 from Alpenfire Cider 4 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle via Press. Stemless wineglass at home. No one else is interested.
Clear, orange amber pour, weak head.
Tannic, new leather, juicy orange nose.
Thin, half crispy, lots of leather & orange citrus.
Taste is lemon, leather, earthy bits, pear skin, lots of seed & citrus.
Medium high acid, iron, half sweet, lingering green pith, weak grapefruit, super leafy finish, lingering acid, iron.
Extra thin, sort of astringent, desperate for air, sharp carb. Obviously good.
Vapid but good texture, finite & lacking something.
Tried
from Bottle
from Press Then Press Cider Shop
on 27 Sep 2025
at 04:48