Charles
Shacksbury in Vergennes, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
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6.97
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Made using long-forgotten fruit on Ernest Shackleton's hilltop farm. Apples are a blend of wild apples from farm owners Charles & Miranda, plus additional fruit from the Shacksbury Lost Apple Project. Fermented with wild yeast & aged on toasted oak.
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7.8
SaltyGrog (4618) reviewed Charles from Shacksbury 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottle from Shacksbury March cider club. Pint glass @ home. Yeasty, dark yellow gold body. Quick hitting, fizzy head. Smells of mulching leaves, forest floor, bitter apples, wild onions, rain, lactose, active fermentation. Despite all those descriptors, it is very mild & not a focal point. Lightly crispy & bitter upfront, it leans into a tart, earthy, sawdust-dry apple peel flavor. Residual yeast adds more texture than flavor. Hay, faint vanilla oak, creeping lingering acid(& bubbles). Creamy, perfectly carbed, warming. Overall it's pretty good.
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from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2021
at 19:12