Dabinett Baldwin (2020)
South Hill Cider in Ithaca, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Cider Regular|
Score
6.69
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours lightly hazy gold with slight haze. It smells of musty apples. The flavor is dry with smooth apple flavor, lightly floral. Alright.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Original rate: 9/30/22, 2.8 Second rate: 3/17/24 3.4 Same vintage, new delivery from the producer. Same look. Still estery but not obvious banana on the nose. Bittersweet, sharper, obvious Dabinett, not enough Baldwin. Thinner texture, more iron-y. A little dusty on the end. Lingering minerally note. Still intentionally flat. Great acid, low tart. Better. Bottle from their cider club. Goblet @home. Slightly dusty, not quite hazy pour. Bittersweet apple, banana, salt, Bittersweet, creamy, doughy, minerally, floral, so damn yeasty. Disappointed, because I usually love both these apples. I'm tired of whatever this is. Okay. Tough in a 750.