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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.
7.1/10
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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
7.4/10
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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
6.9/10
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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
7.6/10
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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
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Pours a still golden color, Chardonnay-like. Crisp apple aroma and flavor. Not sweet, very dry. Very good cider.
Tried
on 13 Nov 2015
at 21:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pour at Colony Club during the Anxo pop-up event. Shared by Travlr, thanks Gene! Slightly hazy golden yellow with off-white ring. Aromas of sweet apples, tropical fruit. Tastes of citrus and apples. Light body with a very dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2015
at 15:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Colony Clubβs ANXO event. Clear golden color, sparkling. Nice aroma of dusty skins and tannins. Taste is bone dry, short crisp finish. Very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2015
at 09:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Steel Toad. Hazy with a head that dies quickly. Yellow. Earthy and slightly tannic apple aroma. Very dry, a bit flat, natural carbonation, earthy and slightly tart. Nice cider, some sweetness in the finish. Seems pretty authentic, I like it.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Oct 2015
at 19:40
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draught at Steel Toad, Vancouver; 250 ml
Cloudy blond color. Aggressive aroma, tart, pungent, even piney, a bit funky, and with plastic. It has a good body structure, the mouthfeel is not too dry, with strong sourness, lemony and funky, a bit yeasty; lovely tartness in the final; it may have traces of acetic acid, but this one is so close to true Spanish ciders.
Excellent.
Cloudy blond color. Aggressive aroma, tart, pungent, even piney, a bit funky, and with plastic. It has a good body structure, the mouthfeel is not too dry, with strong sourness, lemony and funky, a bit yeasty; lovely tartness in the final; it may have traces of acetic acid, but this one is so close to true Spanish ciders.
Excellent.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2015
at 18:26
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A golden blonde cider with aroma of sweet apple jam, light acidity, light lemony notes, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet tart apples with light mineral notes, acidity, well balanced. Bottle at Vermont Cheese Fest 2015.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2015
at 22:34