Cidre de Glace
Domaine Lafrance in Saint-Joseph-Du-Lac, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Cider - Ice Cider Regular|
Score
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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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 10.5%. Sweet apple aroma. Clear golden colour. Good sweet flavour, very sweet actually. Spicy apple with a bit of alcohol. Good level of alcohol even though the sweetness overpowers it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2010
at 15:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear golden with no head. Sweet aroma with natural concentraded ripe apples. Flavour was sweet with loads of concentrated natural apples. Quite full. Finished sweet. Delicious.
Tried
on 08 Feb 2010
at 15:23
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
37.5 cL bottle, courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is crisp fruity and mild citrusy. Sweet and solid apple fruity. Slight sticky and mild citric flavoured. Lingering fruity and citric finish. Great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2010
at 12:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle bough in Lyon, France. A dark golden cider. The aroma has strong notes of apples as well as some alcohol - nice. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of apples, apple core, and alcohol, leading to a smooth apply finish - me like.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2010
at 12:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 37,5 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours a clear golden. Intense apple accents with a little noble rot. Solid body, thick and syrupy with very fresh apple notes, vanilla too. Sweet and warming alcohol finish. 080210
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2010
at 11:59
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sampled at the DC Local tasting. Pours a totally clear yellow. No head. No carbonation. Aroma is all apples, apple juice mostly. Flavor is super sweet, apple juice, apples. Not a ton of complexity. Sticky, sweet finish. This is a really simple, straight forward cider.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2010
at 12:47
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2005 375ml bottle from Harry! Nose of sweet syrupy apple pie; translucent gold in color; excellent flavor favors sweet (but not overly so) apples and a hint of spices and tartness. This one is over the top!
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2008
at 20:12
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
0.2L bottle. Many thanks Natalie and Roei, for bringing this treasure from Quebec. beautiful gold yellow colour, subdued appley aroma, complex flavours of fresh, baked and cooked apples. Balanced perfectly between rich but not cloying sweetness and piercing fresh acidity.This is a revelation and like nothing else i have ever tasted. For a long time after the bottle was finished i was sitting around it, trying to "milk" the glass for some more of this elixir. An excellent desert drink, on par with some of the best desert wines i have tasted over the years.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2007
at 10:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Golden ice cider with nice yellowish hues. Apple purée aroma, with light alcohol. NIce sweet apples juice with ligh lactic notes, smooth, and nice light alcohol warmth. At Salon des Vins et Spiritueux de Montréal, March 25 2006.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2006
at 07:44