Merridale Cidery & Distillery Champagne Style Somerset

Champagne Style Somerset

 

Merridale Cidery & Distillery in Cobble Hill, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Cider - Dry Regular
Score
6.41
ABV: 7.8% IBU: - Ticks: 5
This is the English version of champagne-style cider, dry and sparkling with balanced acids. Perfect for a special occasion, Somerset is aged for more than a year to become completely dry.
 

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5
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Tasting at Matt’s
So pale that is near to water. Vinous aroma, delicate, a bit flowery, light fruity touch, but also a hint of cork. Dry, acidic, and empty, no remarkable flavor, and a bit astringent in the final.
One more American poor cider that doesn’t go anywhere.

Tried from Can on 08 Jun 2016 at 23:14


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle - Some green apple and sulphur. Very clear. Apple peel, blight bitterness and a dry finish. No bubbles at all, not worth the hype.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2016 at 23:08


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

750mL bottle, pours a clear pale blonde with a small white head. Aroma is bone dry, with champagne-like effervescence and super dry apples. Flavour is very restrained, with bone dry apples and maybe a touch of champagne wildness. Don't get any of the high alcohol. Not very complex at all. The carbonation is surprisingly underwhelming -- barely carbonated. Not bad, but very underwhelming. Disappointing.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2016 at 23:01


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Vintage 2006, red label. Cloudy white yellow, very sparkly. Champagne dry, light floral apple and citrus. Very nice subtle dry flavors, definitely comparable with a good champagne. Super nice.

Tried on 30 Sep 2012 at 12:15


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Hazy beige-yellow colour. Aroma is of apple skins, hint of brown sugar and sulphite. Soft and bubbly, with a rounded apple flavour, sweet edge and only a hint of alcohol coming in late, this is probably the most accessible but also the best-crafted Merridale’s product yet.

Tried on 02 Jul 2006 at 15:12