Wassail
Sea Cider Farm & Ciderhouse in Central Saanich, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Cider - Spiced Regular|
Score
7.18
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Pours a shiny pure gold color. Aroma of honey, spices, and warm apples. Cinnamon, apples, and brown sugar powered flavor, and very nicely done.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
On tap at Sea Cider. Pours a clear, very pale blonde. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice with a touch of candied apples on the nose. Flavour has a nice blend of winter spices, allspice coming out on top; candied apples, slightly dry. ABV is only betrayed by the hit of sugars as it goes down. Very nicely done.
Tried
from Draft
at
Sea Cider Farm & Ciderhouse
on 04 Apr 2026
at 19:13
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pale, just slightly greenish. Appley, cinnamony aroma. On the palate, apple, cinnamon and nutmeg. Balanced, moderate acidity and a touch of alcohol. Not bad.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2024
at 04:37
7/10
Tried
on 18 Apr 2023
at 00:49
7/10
A pale blonde cider with aroma of ginger, apple jam, orange pulp, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity apple juice with light cardamom, ginger, cloves, alcohol warmth, very nice and smooth. On tap at cidery.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jan 2022
at 01:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
750ml swing top bottle. Pours a crystal clear gold with a medium, fizzy, short lived, white head that leaves spotty lacing. Sweet, spicy aroma of ginger, clove, cinnamon, coriander, orange peel, caramel and red apple. Sweet, spicy flavour of ginger, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, coriander, honey, red apple, caramel, orange peel, a hint of oak and warming alcohol in a dry finish. Medium body with an oily texture and lively carbonation. Nice complexity. ABV is well hidden, making this dangerously easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2019
at 03:51
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Nice faint white body and no head, earthy cardamom and clove on the nose with apple hints. Flavour is big clove and apple, Christmas cake style. Sweet but pulls back at the right moment and the alcohol is nowhere to be found. Very nice, I'd like a bottle of this for winter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2019
at 19:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tasting at Matt’s
Nice amber color. It’s a moderately sweet cider, with warm alcohol feeling, warm spices (cinnamon, cloves) and light orangey touch; the final is lightly hot, peppery; and it has some trace of mature apples. I know that this is basically not a true cider, but it’s a pleasant drink.
Nice amber color. It’s a moderately sweet cider, with warm alcohol feeling, warm spices (cinnamon, cloves) and light orangey touch; the final is lightly hot, peppery; and it has some trace of mature apples. I know that this is basically not a true cider, but it’s a pleasant drink.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2015
at 22:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a clear golden bronze with basically no head. Nose brings out light spices, medium sweet apples, liqueur, and a thorough dryness to this despite the high ABV, which is fairly well-hidden. Flavour is heavily spiced, with notes of cinnamon and clove upfront, followed by light orange peel, sweet apples, and alcohol. I know this isn't authentic, but this sure is well-balanced and multi-dimensional. ABV is scarily well-hidden, with not much of a burn, though there is a nice warming effect. Excellent non-traditional "cider".
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2015
at 21:51
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
750 mL bottle pour split. Pours a shiny pure gold color. Aroma of honey, spices, and warm apples. Cinnamon, apples, and brown sugar powered flavor, and very nicely done. Can’t believe this is so high in abv. Drinks easy. Wow. Awesome stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2015
at 20:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Warm dark sugars and spices. Clear gold. Spices, cinnamon, clove and some nutmeg along with apples. Like an apple turnover. Although heavy on spice a surprisingly light finish with only the hint of spices lingering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2015
at 14:09