Winter Chill
Woodchuck Cider in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Cider Regular|
Score
6.28
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The chill of winter sends some running for the mountains, while others prefer to stay cozy in the comfort of the great indoors. Whichever way you enjoy winter, this cider is built to get you through. Aged in premium french and traditional american oak, Winter Chill brings a rich depth of apple flavor with hints of vanilla and Oak throughout.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours orangey amber into a shaker. White head quickly recedes to hug rim. Sweet oak and apple aromas. Dry oak front to back with a mild apple, dry abrupt finish.
Tried
on 13 Oct 2011
at 14:32
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Pours clear light amber with no head to speak of. No lacing, medium body, and slightly sticky texture. Taste is sweat tangy apple and a hint of oak. Not that great.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2011
at 06:31
3.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 6
Overall 1
Winter sucker-no new rate edition."Less then 1% of: Natural Flavor" Pint glass pour. Half inch of flimsy white-wash head. Picturesque filtered golden amber lager color. Carbonation looks well to do. Smell is of soggy oats, must, & dirty/metallic still water. There is an underlying note of cheap perfume & vanillan. Initial taste is okay. What I thought was maybe a darker, more natural cider, actually started to reveal itself as nothing more then varnish & apple concentrate. It was just masked by the prickly carbonation. Ugh. I could almost swear this is sweetened with instant iced tea mix, spiked with grain alcohol, & leveled out to 5% with recalled menthol-flavored seltzer water. Very ugly plastic/petroleum phenols. This "hard cider" is considerably worse then many of their basic offerings. Those are bad, but this is sickening.
Tried
on 04 Jan 2011
at 03:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a nice clear bronze. Aroma is an excellent bourbon with some apple tartness in there. Flavor turns out to be a typical cider with some sugar sweetness followed by apple puckering tartness. Damn this sure smells good.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2009
at 11:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle - Pours clear golden and smells of green apples and oak. It tastes of sweet apples with a little tartness and ample soft oak flavors. It’s a little too sweet, in my opinion, but the oak goes very well with it and it’s enjoyable and very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2009
at 18:39
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled from a 12 oz green bottle this cider poured a caramel-amber color with a trace of a white head. The aroma was dryish apple with a touch of wood. The flavor was medium sweet and tart apple. Less tart and sweet than the original. Medium length tart apple finish. Not a whole lot of oak flavor to this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2009
at 12:40
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz bottle. Cider is a amber color with no noticeable head. Aroma is apples (obviously) with touches of vanilla. Flavor is apples, vanilla, oak. Tart, sweet. Not something I’d have more than one of at the same time, but decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2009
at 12:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from a local grocery store. Pours a clear amber with a head that makes cola look good. Aroma is apples with vanilla and faint toasted oak notes. Taste is apples, oak, vanilla. Faintly spicy. Medium bodied. One of their better products.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2009
at 14:48
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Butters on 3/23/2009. Very clear amber body with a medium fizzy off-white head that rapidly fully diminishes. Sweet apple flavor with some oak hints and a bit of caramel. Sweet vanilla and oak flavor blending into soft apple. Medium light body with high carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2009
at 18:09
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Macrobrew gold. Appley nose. Sprizty body. Some toast, apple. Pretty boring presentation. Too sweet.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2009
at 00:27