Welsh Mountain Cider

Cidery in Llanidloes, Powys, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Established in 2011

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Prospect Orchard. Newchapel, Llanidloes, SY186JY, Wales
Description
Welsh Mountain Cider is a family run Ciderworks, apple and pear orchard, tree nursery and smallholding in the Cambrian Mountains of Mid-Wales, UK.

Chava and Bill have worked together for the last 12 years turning a 1115 feet high, six acre plot into Britain's highest altitude Ciderworks, fruit tree nursery and museum orchard. In this time Chava and Bill have planted trees, grafted and sent out hundreds of acres of new orchards, made thousands of litres of amazing cider, grown food, made music and art and brought two delightful girls into the world.

Our cider is made from carefully selected varieties of sweet, bittersweet and sharp apples, which are pressed and allowed to naturally ferment slowly over the winter with their own natural yeasts.

The cider is left to mature for between 6 months and two years, and is then bottled unfiltered and unpasteurized, and without added sulphites.

We cellar age our live cider in the bottle for anywhere between 6 months and 10 years where it continues to mature in the bottle, producing a complex bouquet and rich flavours you would expect from a truly great expression of our native wine.

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

275ml bottle from Welsh Mountain Cider online. Hazy yellow colour, short-lived fizzy white foam head and aroma of elderflower, mellow funk. Taste is tart, apple, elderflower, fruity and floral, citric zest, with just a slight oxidised wet cardboard note. Medium bodied, low carbonation, drying tangy tart finish. Refreshing, quite drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Oct 2017 at 13:19


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

660ml bottle, 2014 Vintage, from Welsh Mountain Cider online. Hazy yellow gold colour, no head and aroma of mellow fruity apple & some funk. Taste is tart apple, fruity, citric sour, drying with funky barnyard notes. Medium bodied, low carbonation, very dry tangy finish. Nicely drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Oct 2017 at 12:39


6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Polycask @ GBBF 2013, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Welsh Mountain Bittersweet (4) ].Unclear matt medium orange color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, wood, horse blanket, spicy, lacto - milk notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration, apple, dusty, spices, wood. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20130815]

Tried from Cask on 25 Feb 2015 at 14:13


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Draught @ Newtown Food Festival Sep 14. Pours yellow with slight cloudy haze. Light apple blossom aroma. Taste is sour, woody vanilla, oak, elderflower and earthy cellar floor.

Tried on 07 Sep 2014 at 12:55


4.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Bag in Box @ Newtown Food Festival Sep 14. Pours hazy orange with a dettol aroma. Tastes like it was aged in TCP casks rather than whisky, such is the strong taste permeating through this. Additional coarse wood splinters and sharp, sour, slightly musky cider apples. Only just drinkable.

Tried from Cask on 07 Sep 2014 at 12:49


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

Bottle at Casper is back tasting. Hazy gold apple juice aroma and flavour. Some dryness on finish. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 10:08


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

Vintage unknown bottle shared at chriso’s. Pours mostly clear yellow with a bubbly white head. Ripe, sugary apple nose with subtle farts. Light-medium sweet flavor with some vinegar, light smoke, metal, meat, ripe apple. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish with tart accents, more smoke, meat, dank basement. Novel stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 10:01


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

Bottle at ChrisO. It pours cloudy golden with no head. The nose is sweet red gala apple, pear skin, melon and white sugar. The taste is bitter-sweet, red apple, pear pulp, some acidity, fruity tartness and melon with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Pretty alright cider.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 09:56


7
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Polycask. [ As Bramley and Bittersweet Heavily Whisky Casked Medium Dry ].Unclear matt medium orange yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate apple, peat, oak, whisky. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light acidic with a long duration, oak, peat, whisky, apple, dry, tart apples, farmyard. Body is medium, texture is creamy - watery, carbonation is flat. [20130828]

Tried from Cask on 30 Oct 2013 at 07:07


2.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5

75cl bottle from Newtown Food Festival 2013. Vinegary smell, spicy sour apple taste, extremely acidic. Was unsure at first whether this was off or not. Let it settle in the mouth and the oak barrel flavours start to dominate with a strong alcohol presence and additional leaves & bark. Sediment in the bottle. I can see myself liking this as a seasoned cider drinker in my 80s, chewing on hay whilst talking to myself in a field.. but right now I’ll give it a miss.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2013 at 03:01