Champlain
Shacksbury in Vergennes, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
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The apples of America's early cider tradition, lost for a variety of reasons, are not hard to find in Vermont - once you know what you're looking for. Though far less numerous than they once were, the trees materialize around every bend, and over every hill, hiding in plain sight. To us, these trees represent a door to another time, and the basis for a superior cider.
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poisoneddwarf (5469) reviewed Champlain from Shacksbury 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750 ml. Aroma is dusty, Band Aid, floral (honeysuckle), apples. Pours sunshiny golden with a huge soapy off-white head that eventually collapses into a thick ring of foam. Taste is moderately tart and pretty funky with flavors of the aroma descriptors. Highly carbonated foamy mouthfeel. An interesting experience.
SaltyGrog (4618) reviewed Champlain from Shacksbury 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the club. Weisse glass @home. Silly eggshell head. Dusty marmalade body. Dusty, yogurt-y, tannic apple nose, lingering ring of head. Yeasty juice, skin, chalky, thick, faintly tart, twang like it's maybe going to turn. This needs more time to settle. Not ready. 2020 y'all!