Shacksbury

Cidery in Vergennes, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2013

Contact
11 W Main St, Vergennes, VT, 05491, United States
Description
Shacksbury Cider makes dry, food friendly wild ciders in Vergennes, Vermont. We source over half of our apples from Sunrise Orchards in Vermont as well as old, abandoned orchards throughout the Champlain Valley. We also work with Dragon Orchard in England and Petritegi Sagardoa in Spain. Our fermentations are slow and deliberate. We rarely use added sulfites. We prefer native yeast / wild fermentations and bottle condition via methode ancestrale or methode champenoise whenever possible. At Shacksbury, we believe cider can, and should, be daring and complex. From gnarled trees on New England farmsteads to Old World orchards in England and Spain, our cider will change the way you think about this amazing fruit.

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7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap at Max’s in Baltimore pours a clear gold, perhaps a little darker gold, with a ring of white head. Nose has plenty of apple juice, hints of corn, a little perfume, and then some caramel/whiskey. Flavor follows with apple, apple sauce, mild spice, mild spice, some booze, some vanilla. Finishes a touch sweet. Well done.

Tried from Draft on 16 Jun 2016 at 17:48


8.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft at Paradiso Dupont. Cloudy pale yellow color, still. Funky pitty feety aroma. Taste is funky tart fruit. Very tasty.

Tried from Draft on 11 May 2016 at 10:49


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle brought by me to Clockwork tasting. golden pour. nose is semi sweet & sour apples. tastes slightly sweeter than the other ciders i’ve had from shacksbury, touch of skin, earth, and wet wood. tasty

Tried from Bottle on 05 Apr 2016 at 09:50


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle - pours gold - nose/taste of lightly sugared apple core, granny apple, light maple - medium body

Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2016 at 19:53


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle pour at a tasting with one of the makers. Nose is nice apple and some peppery spice and wood. Tastes of apple and tart skins, peppery, some birch, minerals, green apple and tannic. Dry amd some fruit and zest on finish. I’m a sucker for the romanticism of foraged ciders.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2016 at 22:00


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Also at the shacksbury tasting and also another stellar cider. Nose is green apple, light perfume, and hint of barrel. Tastes of nice apple, light earth, barrel, yeasty, some perfum. Light bubbly. Tasty.

Tried on 31 Mar 2016 at 21:53


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Poured from bottle at shacksbury tasting, for some reason whenever my wife is away my cider intake goes way up. Fine cider looking pour. Nose is tart apple skin and light earthiness. Tastes of earth, apple skin, light champagne, touch of citrus. Fine bodied good stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2016 at 21:44


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Tap a testing with cider maker. Hazy pour. Nose is tart apple and yeasty. Tastes of nice earthy apples,earthy, bretty yeast, some sugars. Tart light sweetness. Quite good

Tried from Draft on 31 Mar 2016 at 18:03


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

[1/27/16] Draught at The Trappist in Oakland. Hazy golden. Lovely aroma of apples, funk, manure note, a bit of Sulphur. Dry flavor, tart, funky, with a bit of apples. A nice cider.

Tried on 12 Feb 2016 at 06:39


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle - Very earthy and funky notes. Clear gold. Sweat, dry and funky with a nice sweetness. Very nice, but none if the barrel notes.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2015 at 23:03