Twin Island Cider
Cidery in Pender Island, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Description
Harvesting from over thirty heritage orchards and backyards on Pender, Saturna & Mayne Islands, we are a community-centered cidery dedicated to making traditional cider and perry fermented only with native yeasts—cider which truly conveys our island terroir.
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Slight haze. Light quince and apple notes. Fairly tart. Not bad, but a bit odd.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2025
at 16:20
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy, spicy, fresh apples. Juicy, again light spice. Good solid cider.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2025
at 16:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A purplish colour. Tart, good appley accent. Medium tartness. Low tannins, so well-balanced.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2025
at 04:30
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2025, pours a clear yellowish blonde, no head. Aroma has lots of barnyard funk, complex wild yeast, champagne-like effervescence, and bone dry apple skins. Flavour is nearly bone dry, with champagne-like effervescence, and dry apple skins. Funky, dry and complex. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2025
at 04:31
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2025, pours a clear rosé, no head. Aroma has plenty of rosé wine, musty grape skins, and some dry apple skins. Flavour is dry and musty, with moderate funk, lots of rosé wine, and must dry grape skins. Complex, dry and wonderfully blended. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2025
at 04:31
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2025, pours a clear pale golden, no head. Nose has lots of musty barnyard funk, dry apple skins, and a touch of champagne-like effervescence — lots of sweaty armpits. Flavour is full of sweaty armpits, some bitter astringency, and weird musty apples. Seems like something went wrong here. Unusual for Twin Island.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2025
at 04:30
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2025, pours a hazy golden orange tiny white head. Aroma has plenty of dry apple skins and champagne-like effervescence. Flavour is bone dry, with lots of dry apple skins, champagne-like effervescence, and barnyard funk. Funky, bone dry, and buggy. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2025
at 04:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pour at Threefold. Pours murky deep mahagony with a light pink head. Lots of funky apple skins and musty vinous notes. Flavour is dry and vinous with lots of musty apple skins and a strong tannic finish. Fantastic cider.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Threefold
on 02 Aug 2025
at 21:44
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750mL bottle, pours a hazy blonde with a small, quickly-dissipating white head. Aroma is quite funky, with a nice farmhouse funk, hay, and crisp apple skins. Flavour has a big champagne-like effervescence, lots of farmhouse funk, bone dry apple skins, and finishing highly carbonated. Bone dry, champagne-like finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - South Granville
on 02 Jun 2025
at 03:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
[notes] Poured from bottle @ FHF 2023 (Aug 12, 2023). Deep purple with minimal pinkish white head. Feint orange peel, apple skins, decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2025
at 08:19