Cacao
Finnriver Cidery in Chimacum, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Cider - Ice Cider Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.32
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This is a fortified wine. The cacao extract is sweetened with pear juice then lightly fermented into a wine. Fermentation is then halted by the addition of Finnriver's custom-distilled apple brandy.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Wonderfully beautiful bottle. Pours a clear yellow golden color with thick legs. A big sweet sticky nose, some cacao. Huge boozy flavor, sweet pear, sticky, big chocolate slides in but overall it is sort of odd to me. Very hot. Pretty interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2017
at 18:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Doug's Christmas party
Slightly cloudy light golden. Pear, apples, sugar and hot alcohols
Smooth
Slightly cloudy light golden. Pear, apples, sugar and hot alcohols
Smooth
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2017
at 22:16
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Doug. Sticky, sweet juicy perry. Fruity and sweet. Syrupy. Initial schnapps nose gives way to sweet juice flavors. Then alcohol heat kicks in...
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2017
at 22:15
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tall sexy bottle pours out a pear color no head. Nose is booze pear honey sweetness chocolate. Taste is more of the nice sweet pears hot booze wow.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2017
at 22:11
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle - Lots of fruity sweetness and some acetone. Clear copper with no head. Sweet, bit of booze and caramel and lots of light coffee notes. Syrupy and sweet cocoa, very odd.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2015
at 00:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Medium rusty orange. Silky smooth and thick. Cacao, sweet fruit, pear liqueur, very sweet sugary finish but with lasting warm booze, too. Such a great sipper.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2015
at 20:27
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Sampled at Finnriver, pours a clear apple juice colour. Aroma brings out dry cacao nibs, along with pear liqueur and brandy. Flavour is insanely rich, with loads of cacao - wow, amazing. Elegant, complex, boozy and unbelievably drinkable. Amazing stuff.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2014
at 14:03
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Corked bottle at winery
Murky light brown color. Some cacao aroma, smells like an old grocery shop. Very sweet, with cacao light drink flavor. No pear, but some alcohol warmth.
Chocolate liquor. Weird.
Murky light brown color. Some cacao aroma, smells like an old grocery shop. Very sweet, with cacao light drink flavor. No pear, but some alcohol warmth.
Chocolate liquor. Weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2014
at 14:19