Salt Spring Wild Cider House
Cidery
in Salt Spring Island,
British Columbia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Salt Spring Wild Cider House
Oakes (33493) reviewed Grapeskin Perry from Salt Spring Wild Cider House 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pale, with a slight bit of haze. It's soft for a cider, with good pear notes, maybe a bit of the grape skins. Good quality, though probably less grapey than I was expecting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
341mL can, pours a deep dark purple-ish amber with a small beige head. Aroma has plenty of blackberry upfront, not getting much citrus/yuzu though, and a touch of crisp apple skins. Flavour is much the same with low-to-medium sweetness, plenty of jammy blackberry, and maybe a touch of yuzu that I wish there was more of. Not much complexity and too sweet for me even at this level, but it’s alright.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2025, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma has crisp pear skins, some subtle grape skins, and a touch of bugginess. Flavour is buggy, with lots of buggy notes, crisp apple skins, and musty grape skins. Cohesive, integrated and subtly complex. Great stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2025, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma has some musty dry apple skins and some wild yeast. Flavour is dry, with lots of dry grape skins, apple skins, and farmhouse notes. Vinous and dry finish. Excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
[notes] Poured from bottle @ FHF 2023 (Aug 12, 2023). Cloudy blonde gold with no head. Bright apple skins, apple core, simple, okay.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
[notes] Poured from bottle @ FHF 2023 (Aug 12, 2023). Clear-ish pale blonde with minimal white head. Honey, orange zest, okay.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Apple Blackberry from Salt Spring Wild Cider House 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pale pink colour, and bright. Appley, with light berry. Balanced, but not actually that exciting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pale, bright and gold. Fruity, a bit estery on that fermentation. That ferm has this finishing a bit rough.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Apple Gamay from Salt Spring Wild Cider House 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pale pinkish colour, with a slight haze. The grapes are prominent. Complex wine/cider interplay.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Brett & Barrel from Salt Spring Wild Cider House 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Opaque dull yellow appearance, with no head of course. Toasty, nice apple. Medium tart palate with complex apple notes.