Tawny
Nohoval Drinks Co. - Stonewell Cider in Kilnagleary, County Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪
Cider - Ice Cider Regular|
Score
7.32
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A truly specialist cider, Tawny is a rich, opulent and viscous cider, dark in colour and possessing complex bittersweet flavours. Tawny can be consumed as a slightly chilled aperitif or it also performs excellently as an accompaniment to cheese or desserts.
We create this cider by chaptalising the Michelin and Dabinett apple juice whilst it ferments. Raising the alcohol to 15%, we arrest the fermentation. This leaves residual sugars which encourage the development of highly complex favours during its minimum 12 month aging process. When we consider the cider has reached maturity we pass it through dry hops. This final step before bottling adds additional flavour and counter balances the residual sugars remaining within the cider: which all goes to create an array of delightful aromas on the nose.
We create this cider by chaptalising the Michelin and Dabinett apple juice whilst it ferments. Raising the alcohol to 15%, we arrest the fermentation. This leaves residual sugars which encourage the development of highly complex favours during its minimum 12 month aging process. When we consider the cider has reached maturity we pass it through dry hops. This final step before bottling adds additional flavour and counter balances the residual sugars remaining within the cider: which all goes to create an array of delightful aromas on the nose.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sample courtesy of Grumbo via danlo, cheers. Aroma of toffee, spice, hint of biscuit, alcohol and apple pulp. Taste is sweet and bitter at the same time. Fleshy apple and apple pulp. Warm alcohol hit at the end. Very nice.
Tried
on 12 Jan 2025
at 09:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Panda at home, thanks to SHIG, 03/01/22. Clear golden copper with off white bubbles that cling to the edge of the glass. Nose is bitter sweet apples, caramel, alcohol, sherry notes, spice, light wood. Taste comprises apple pulp, hint of sherry, oak, toffee apple, light spice, orchard wood. Full bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close with a good rasp of alcohol. Solid drop ... warming alcohol in the close but balanced and not weighing in at the stated 15%.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2022
at 17:06
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Sample thanks to Danlo: Poured a dark orange with a white head. Aroma is hops, apple, booze, toffee. Taste is sweet sticky boozy, toffee, caramel, apple, sweet but alcohol balances.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2021
at 12:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
24/10/2021. Bottle sample courtesy of danlo, cheers Ed! Pours clear deep amber with no head. Aroma of rich apple, toffee, spicy hoppy notes, edge of rubbing alcohol. Medium sweetness, mild bitterness. Full bodied, sticky texture, low carbonation. Packs quite a punch. Warming alcohol finish. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2021
at 19:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle from Ardkeen. Bright orangey amber gold colour, afew short-lived bubbles on top and aroma of tobacco, leather, apple hints, spice. Taste is sweet, apple syrup, juicy, leathery, tangy, spiced, with alittle earthy hop bitterness. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, low carbonation, dry spicy warming bitter finish. Nicely sippable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2021
at 20:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
7 3 7 3 14Bottle shared at Sunday Brunch Bee Boost. Clear golden with no head. Aroma of sweet apples, candy and green apple. Flavour is heavy sweet. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2018
at 14:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thx! for sharing Benzai! Sampled draft @ Van Moll Fest 2016. 500 ml. bottle. Clear flat lemon citrus appearance. Nose is sweet sugary apple, low candied apple. Taste is sweet basic apple cider, simple, sweet, no unpleasant notes, low sugar, largely just sweet apple, almost a tad candy like, considering the ABV I expected more complexity but this is pleasant. You do not feel the ABV at all.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Aug 2016
at 14:59
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled at Van Moll Beer fest. Clear pale yellow golden color, no head. Medium dry, apple, soft apple peel. Nice.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2016
at 11:24