Virtue Cider Ledbury

Ledbury

 

Virtue Cider in Fennville, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Cider - Medium Rotating
Score
6.47
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 25
Ledbury is an old market town in Herefordshire, England – full of historic inns and pubs, and a beautiful, half-timber Market House dating back to 1617. It sits between the rivers Wye and Severn, surrounded by orchards growing cider apples. My first visit to Ledbury was as a brewer, to buy English hops in the autumn of 2007. I returned in 2011, a newly minted Cider-maker, to meet Tom Oliver. Tom makes traditional cider and perry in Ocle Pynchard, Herefordshire, to my palate among the very best.

The Ledbury Cider is an English-style medium cider – not too dry, not too sweet. A blend of old world bittersweet apples and new world heirloom varieties are fermented with native yeast, adding a bit of farminess to the ripe apple nose.
 

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6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

18.06.2018, 0,75l bottle (2013 harvest) shared with friends @ home:
Nice fizzy-creamy shortlasting head, clear golden color. Aroma is slightly sweet concentrated sour-ish fruity, sour apples, grass, apple peel, sorrel, yellow apples, apple cores, leafs, hints of caramel. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish grassy, sorrel, apple peel, apple cores, grass, hay, yeast, minerals, weeds, paper, leafs. Medium bitterness, slightly watery and dry sour-ish fruity mouthfeel. Nice enough, easy drinking.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jun 2018 at 19:15


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

6-3-6-3-13
Bottle, 2013 harvest, shared with BBGTC. Pours clear yellow, with a small creamy head. Aroma is tart notes of apples, musty fruit peel and minerals. Light body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is tart, musty notes of fruit peel and apples, as well as malts with dusty minerals and earthy notes. Fairly dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jun 2018 at 19:12


5.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Draft. A yellow cider. The aroma has notes of apples. The flavor is a bit acidic with notes of apples, and a bit of lemon, leading to a dry finish.

Tried from Draft on 03 Jul 2017 at 05:10


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Jester King. Pours a clear gold with small white head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is strong oak and apple skin. Thin body, apple, pear, strong oak, light dry finish, very good.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Sep 2016 at 16:00


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750mL bottle, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out medium sweetness and a touch of funk. Flavour is fairly dry, with dry apples, medium funk and dry bready notes. Not overly complex, but quite dry and funky. Decent cider.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2016 at 13:01


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750ml bottle from Mikkeller webshop. Deep orange golden colour, short-lived white foam head and nose of fruity apple with juicy, caramel, vanilla notes. Juicy apple flavour up front, sweetish, then apple skins, green apples, rubber, earthy, hay, wood, some tartness and drying tannins. Light to medium bodied, low to medium carbonation, dry tangy tannic finish. Quite drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Feb 2016 at 12:03


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught @ CBC 2015. Pours tiny hazy golden with no head worth mentioning. Smell is fruity with ripe smashed apples, hay, dry soil, minerals, kumquats, lemon peal and hitns of paper. Taste is sour and fruity. mouthfeel is crisp, dry, tart and light bodied. Finish is sour with mixed smashed apples, hay, minerals, kumqauts, lemon peal and hints of paper. Less papery, less heavy dry and more fruit than Lapinette but still only decent. Needs lots more fruit from the apples and less paper without getting sweet and less refreshing.

Tried on 06 Dec 2015 at 14:15


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Tried on 25 Aug 2015 at 14:35


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Draught @ CBC 2015. Pours golden, no head. Aroma of green apples, little wood, sugar. Flavor is green apples, light tart, wood, sugar. Thin body, lively carbonation. 010515

Tried on 18 Jul 2015 at 01:28


5.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

CBC. Golden with no head. Aroma is apple, fruit, apple peel, notes of sulfur and oak. Flavour is apple, fruit, sweet, apple, peel, and a little sugar.

Tried on 06 Jul 2015 at 13:05