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.
330 ml can from Old Shoe, Sheffield. Pours clear gold with dissipating white bubbles. Floral, herbal, light sharp, juniper type gin botanicals. Towards sweet in taste. Medium body with spritzy carbonation. An interesting flavour journey, I enjoyed it.
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The Old Shoe
on 13 Mar 2025
at 20:01
Can from Old Shoe, Sheffield. Pours clear dark gold with dissipating white to opaque bubbles. Aroma & taste: Sharp, citric, tangy, minor caramel, mildly funky, moderately tannic. Uber dry. Towards medium body with low carbonation.
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The Old Shoe
on 09 Mar 2025
at 20:51
Is this my first Rose cider? I’m not sure. Wine looking hued. Nose is tannic grape skin and fine crabappple. Tastes of tart crab apples and vinous grape skin, some jam and wood. Dry. Little watery.
355ml can from Mitchell Wines Meadowhead - murky amber gold body, no head. 5.5% version, spicy citrus, hits of ginger at the finish, grapefruit and tangy apple.
Can from Total Wine in Vacaville, CA. Pours gold with a slight white head. Mixed red and green apple skin aroma. Med body or almost. Very, very dry. Flavor is mixed apple skin. Almost tart.
Draft at Time Market. Slightly hazy pinkish color, fizzy. Aroma of floral apple skins. Taste is apple flesh and skin, lemon zest, earthy dried leaves, dry finish. Very tasty