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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6.6/10 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

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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

2.6/10 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

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Tried on 28 Aug 2013 at 12:37


6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
From cask. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is zesty and crisp apple juicy. Citric, crisp apples and mild sweet. Lingering crisp apple into the finish.
Tried from Cask on 15 Aug 2013 at 06:44

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Bottled. Hazy pale golden, no head. Tart, citric red appla aroma. Dry and slender with low carbonation and well rounded mouthfeel. Red apples and minerals, meaty. Salty finish with slight appley citricity.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Mar 2012 at 14:30

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Cask (gravity) @ GWBCF2011 - Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival, Cardiff Interantional Arena, Mary Ann Street, Cardiff, Wales.Light unclear medium grey orange - yellow colour with virtually none head. Aroma is moderateto light heavy apple, tart apples, sour apples, green apples, wood, banryard notes. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet with a average to long duration, apples, dry. Body is medium, texture is watery - oily, carbonation is flat. [20110616]
Tried from Cask on 19 Jul 2011 at 10:15

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
@GWBCF 2011. Golden colour with no head. Aroma is apples, mild yeastyness, some slight wood as well as mild hay. Flavour is tart and sweet apples along with some wood and mild yeasty and herbal notes.
Tried on 18 Jul 2011 at 21:26