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.
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
FHF 2024. Appearance: cloudy blonde with a white head. Aroma: funky, candies, very fruity, nice. Taste: along the same lines, very crispy, dry, lots of fruit, some candies. Overall: very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Aug 2024
at 21:33
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy blonde with a small, quickly-dissipating white head. Aroma brings out lots of farmhouse funk, plenty of hay, and crisp apple skins. Flavour is complex, with plenty of farmhouse funk, crisp apple skins, hay, and a touch of apple core. Lots of hay, funk and crispness with a bone dry finish. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2024
at 04:20
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours light golden. Yeasty aroma. Crisp apple flavour. A bit tart; dry in the mouth. Nice.
Tried
on 13 Jan 2024
at 04:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle. Clear blonde with almost no white head. Apple skin, feint floral tartness that lends itself nicely to the overall balance, quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2024
at 04:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a clear pale blonde with a small white head. Aroma is nicely musty and funky, with rustic notes, dry apple skins, and a touch of hay. Flavour is on the tart side, with plenty of hay, musty dry apple skins, and above average tartness for a cider (much tarter than Twin Island's average too). Some good subtle depth to this. Solid, but I prefer their funkier, drier ones. Still very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2024
at 04:13
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pale gold. Nice appley aroma. Deep juicy apple taste, like eating apples but with far more tannins. The expressive fruit is really highlighted by the right tannins and gentle acidity. Assertive. Quality.
Tried
on 13 Jan 2024
at 04:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pale pink and just a faint haze. Aroma has a bit of sulphur, which is off-putting, but there's some apply notes underneath of that. It's off-dry, with more of that sort of sulphury whiff, some pedio as well, that overpowers the apples a bit.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2023
at 02:25
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazed orange with super quickly dissipating white head to nothing. A bit earthy, dry apple skin, soft pear underlay, decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2023
at 02:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750ml @ Matt's men's cave shared by him. Appearance: hazy golden with no head. Aroma: grapes, funky, some apples, dry. Taste: along the same lines, no sweetness, quite dry. Overall: good one.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2023
at 02:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy golden orange with a tiny white head. Aroma is full of dry funky farmhouse yeast, bone dry apple skins, and some horse blanket. Flavour is bone dry, with lots of barnyard funk, dry apple skins, and horse blanket. I completely missed the grape. Funky, bone dry and nicely complex. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2023
at 02:18