Cidre de Glace
Domaine Lafrance in Saint-Joseph-Du-Lac, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Cider - Ice Cider Regular|
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7.81
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Multi-award winning prestigious ice cider Domaine Lafrance is exported in France, China and Japan.
Made with three varieties of apples, Domaine Lafrance is a complex ice cider made with cryoconcentration.
Cryoconcentration: apples are picked when mature, and then they are frozen before the pressing. After, the juice is frozen outside to extract the concentrate. Finally, this concentrate is placed in a wooden for a six month fermentation.
Domaine Lafrance is sweet, smooth and liquorous, with fresh apple aromas. Taken with an entrée, the dessert plate or a fine old Cheddar. Foie gras, pâtés and terrines, tarte Tatin, apricot mousse and dark chocolate.
One 375 ml bottle of ice cider requires 12 or more kilos of apples, or the equivalent of 60+ apples.
Serve chilled.
Made with three varieties of apples, Domaine Lafrance is a complex ice cider made with cryoconcentration.
Cryoconcentration: apples are picked when mature, and then they are frozen before the pressing. After, the juice is frozen outside to extract the concentrate. Finally, this concentrate is placed in a wooden for a six month fermentation.
Domaine Lafrance is sweet, smooth and liquorous, with fresh apple aromas. Taken with an entrée, the dessert plate or a fine old Cheddar. Foie gras, pâtés and terrines, tarte Tatin, apricot mousse and dark chocolate.
One 375 ml bottle of ice cider requires 12 or more kilos of apples, or the equivalent of 60+ apples.
Serve chilled.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Small 4 ounce bottle, dark yellow nice legs. Smells insane. Sweet cherry, raspberry, persimmon and pear. Insanely sweet, high residual sugar content, I mostly get granny smith apple, pear, finish of raisins and currants.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2015
at 16:42
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Clear warm golden colour. Aroma of apple, sweet apple, pie, bit spicy. Sweet apple flavour, treacle, syrup. Flat, quite viscous. Finish lingering apple, quite sweet, treacle. Nice. I’m quite a sucker for ice ciders.
(from 5cL miniature bottle @ ZBF 2014. Huge thanks for sharing, 77ships!)
(from 5cL miniature bottle @ ZBF 2014. Huge thanks for sharing, 77ships!)
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2015
at 02:58
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle 5 cl thnx to a canadian friend ! Pours clear blonde . Smell is thick, sweet applesauce, with a touch of wood almost . As if it had a perios of aging ( on the bottle , perhaps ? ) Taste is thick, gentle, sweet, bit sharp in the end . Sticky ( as it should be ) with a nice intensity . Yet another damn fine ice cider ....
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2014
at 14:33
9.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Thanks to tom10101 for this one! 5 cl. bottle, gorgeous packaging. Split with Martinus @ ZBF 2014. I am having a hard time describing ice ciders so far, I keep winding up with the same words. Pours a clear golden. Intense apple aroma, very sweet, lots of fructose and sugar in the nose, sweet spices, pie. Huge apple taste, explosively sweet, sticky sweet, cinnamon, apple pie, spices, very sweet apple sauce. Sticky, touch agave-feel to it. Mmmmm…..
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2014
at 06:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle split at CBC during the Martin T tasting big thanks to Martin himself, 06/06/13. Clear golden with no head. Nose is apples, light booze, hints of berry fruit. Taste comprises fresh apples, light sugars. Full bodied, fine carbonation, sweet finish. Good stuff, the alcohol is well integrated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2013
at 03:18
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample, bottle, tasted during the Mondial des cidres de glace, savoured on February 8 2013; eye: golden, clear, no effervescence; nose: candied apple, acidity, finale in candied apple, quite sweet, flat, liqueur-like and palateful texture; overall: quite fine FRANÇAIS Échantillon, bouteille, bue lors du Mondial des cidres de glace, savourée le 8 février 2013; œil : dorée, limpide, pas d’effervescence; nez : pomme confite; bouche : pomme confite, acidité, finale en pomme confite, pas mal sucré, plate, texture liquoreuse et moelleuse; en résumé : bien bon
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2013
at 06:45
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. 11ABV. Wonderfull dark yellow colour. Fantastic nive powerfull apple aroma. Truli magnificient apple flavor. Long intese finish. Creamy palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2012
at 23:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a deep golden color ice cider with notes of sweet apple juice. Aroma is not the most complex though quite enjoyable with loads of sweet apple notes. Taste is also dominated by sweet apples with no complex ester such apple pie. Alcohol is very faint and almost not perceptible. Not my favourite but enjoyed nonetheless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2010
at 13:07
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle 375ml.Clear medium yellow orange color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy apple, wood, vanilla notes, light alcohol. Flavor is light heavy sweet and light fruity - apple acidic with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20100219]
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2010
at 14:54
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Fastelavnssmagning, Ulfborg. Pours clear golden with no head. Nose is lovely complex. Red apples and fresh grass. Sticky and oily. Low carbonation. Fruity and ripe red apples. Vague warmth. Complex and very tasty!
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2010
at 05:36