Broc Cellars Limited Edition Rosé
Shacksbury in Vergennes, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Cider - Other Fruit Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.17
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This year, for our 2020 Limited Edition Rosé, we partnered up with Chris Brockway from Broc Cellars who sent us out ridiculously delicious Organic Valdiguie skins which we used to give this cider its rosy hue.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottle from Shacksbury. Stemless wine glass @ home. Pretty watermelon on peach. Translucent, getting heartier on the second, residual yeast pour. Smells of aromatic wild cider, grape skins & not quite ripe strawberries. Taste changes as the bottle goes. First pour is very clean, arid, somewhat acidic cider, with an overabundance of mild grape skin & light cherry. Tight, enjoyably tannic, fruity. More yeast in suspension adds that wild & more so gamey character. Over two bottles it was inconsistently either bready/meaty or vinegary, preferring the former. Mild cherry sticks though & is a very fun & very bubble situation regardless. The grape skin has imparted more wine character on this than in your typical rose cider, while not burying the typically bold & acidic cider Shacksbury likes to produce. Light in density & a little chalky towards the end of the bottle, which is nothing to fear. Good fun.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2020
at 21:34