Bottle. Poured cloudy orange with thin fast dissipating white head. Floral aroma, with much apple. Full flavour, tart apples, honey and syrup. It hand enough sweetness to balance the tartness, and enough tartness to balance the sweetness. Tart apple finish. Very refreshing on a hot day.

Golden with a nearly non-existant head that fizzled away rapidly. Sour apple aroma with mild sweetness. THe flavor is rather tart and dry with a touch of sweetness showing through. Has a wine-like finish with alcohol fumes present. Nice.

Bomber from Total Wine in Roseville. Pours dark gold with nil head. Mildly sweet apple aroma. Medium body with sharpish carbonation. Clean apple flavor - only slightly cooked - but it goes a bit more cooked in the finish. Finishes more sweet than not, but it is a very drinkable cider. More pleasing than many.

Bottle. Pours with a large white head that fizzes away over a pale golden body. Aroma is a bit dry at first, green apple, nice little sweetness between the tannins and acidity. Some champagne like sulfur and co2. Taste is medium sweet and strongly balanced by acidity. Probably the sweetest of the Wandering Aengus’s but not sweet in a backsweetened way. Dry, acidic, sulfuric mouthfeel. Easy to drink. Lively bubbles. The others seem better.
Earlier Rating: 12/15/2008 Total Score: 3.3
Listed as Wandering Aengus Ciderworks Heirloom Blend, which appears to be an alias for this cider. Pours with a pale clear gold body and a fizzy white ring. Aroma is of sweet apple, some alcohol, must, medicinal qualities, minerals and vinegar. Taste is apples and somewhat sweetish with an odd tartness. The sweetness seems kind of unnatural, as if it was back sweetened after fermentation. Slightly medicinal with some citrus bitterness and sourness. Fizzy but not refreshing, thin mouthfeel.