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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.
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.
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle from Cider is Wine. Orangey golden colour, no head and aroma of funky apple, woody hints. Taste is tart fruity, tangy apple, stone fruit notes, bittersweet, with some drying tannins. Medium bodied, low carbonation, dry tart & tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2020
at 22:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Süffiger, säuerlich apfeliger Beginn, etwas wässrig. Steigende Säure, sehr trocken, natürlich. Nagellack, herb, mittellanger Abgang. 10/9/8/9/10/9
Tried
on 07 May 2019
at 12:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
660ml bottle from Welsh Mountain online. Hazy orange gold colour, no head and aroma of tangy apple, vinegary, funk. Taste is juicy apple, tart, citric, woody, leathery barnyard funk and some dry tannin. Medium bodied, low carbonation, drying finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2017
at 14:31
6.1/10
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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
6.9/10
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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
6/10
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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
4.8/10
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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
4.1/10
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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
5.8/10
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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
6.5/10
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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