Eden Specialty Ciders
Cidery
in
Newport,
Vermont,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Northeast Kingdom / Eden Centennial Taproom
Established in 2007
Contact
Description
Fermentor of ice ciders, aperitifs, and naturally sparkling ciders from locally grown heirloom and cider varieties.
Our mission is to support small local orchards who grow special apple varieties using environmentally sustainable practices. Together we grow a fascinating array of varieties to use in our ciders – old New England heirlooms like Blue Pearmain and Roxbury Russet, iconic sweets and sharps like Hudson’s Gem and Esopus Spitzenburg, zingy crabapples like Dolgo, Kerr and Wickson, and historic tannic varieties, including bittersweet and bittersharp varieties that originated in France and England. We press once per year after harvest, using the natural winter cold at our farm to concentrate the flavors and sugars of the apples before fermentation. We don’t use sugar, colorings, acids, or industrial flavorings, and all of our ciders are naturally gluten-free and vegan friendly. Welcome to cider from a wine point of view!
Our mission is to support small local orchards who grow special apple varieties using environmentally sustainable practices. Together we grow a fascinating array of varieties to use in our ciders – old New England heirlooms like Blue Pearmain and Roxbury Russet, iconic sweets and sharps like Hudson’s Gem and Esopus Spitzenburg, zingy crabapples like Dolgo, Kerr and Wickson, and historic tannic varieties, including bittersweet and bittersharp varieties that originated in France and England. We press once per year after harvest, using the natural winter cold at our farm to concentrate the flavors and sugars of the apples before fermentation. We don’t use sugar, colorings, acids, or industrial flavorings, and all of our ciders are naturally gluten-free and vegan friendly. Welcome to cider from a wine point of view!
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle @Ulfborg. Clear amber, oily, no head. Fermented apple aroma. Sweet apple flavour, caramelised apple, a little spice and solid warmth – perhaps from the apple brandy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2024
at 11:23
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle @Ulfborg. Fermented apple aroma, a hint of something spicy. Thick, sweet apple flavour, some baked apple perhaps. Sticky with nice acidity to balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2024
at 11:22
8.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. No head. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich intense apples, fruit sugar and has a nice intense apple finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2024
at 07:57
8.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. No head. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are intense apples, fruits, wood, caramel and has a nice intense apple finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2024
at 07:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a clear light straw from a bottle. Big apple aroma of course, maybe some peach notes. Similar flavor, nicely balanced and semi-dry. Lightly oily and tannic finish. Pretty good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2023
at 05:21
9.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Bottle, shared with others. Pours mahagony with almost no head. Insanely good. Rich apple liquor, barrel, oak, caramel, raisins, port wine, very sweet and rich. Super nice. Super complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2023
at 18:38
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a nice effervescent pale gold from a bottle. Nice syrupy apple, concentrated sugar, faint yeast on the edge. Flavor is a little less dimensional, straightforward ripe apple with a slight tart finish exacerbated by the bubbles. Pet nat, quite bubbly with small bubbles. Pretty good cider.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2023
at 02:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a nice clear gold from a bottle. Nice clean sweet apple aroma and flavor. Oak aged version is better. Pretty good cider.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2023
at 05:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a very effervescent hazy straw from a bottle. I like Travlr's description of the aroma "dusty apple skin", sounds about right. Similar flavor, quite dry and with the faintest of smoke notes on the finish, or at least I perceive it that way. Unfortunately way too bubbly for my taste, very distracting. Pretty good cider.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2023
at 00:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a hazy yellow-orange from a bottle. Nice green apple, unripe pear aroma with a little yeasty funk. Flavor is similar, quite dry and somewhat effervescent. Very good cider.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2023
at 23:40