Salt Spring Wild Cider House

Cidery in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Salt Spring Wild Cider House

Contact
151 Sharp Rd, Salt Spring Island, Salt Spring Island, V8K 2P6, Canada
+12509315554
wild@saltspringwildcider.com
Description
Our ciders are made with the wild apples and pears that grow on Salt Spring Island, and with apples from regional orchards. We never add any water. Our process involves slow-fermenting single varieties and allowing each to mature until it has fully developed. The ciders are then carefully blended for complexity and depth of flavour; our Dry and Semi-Dry ciders are each blends of over 10 different apple varieties!  While the blending process is crucial (and arduous), the special character of our cider is due to the wealth of heritage cider apples that grow on Salt Spring, and to our commitment to making fully natural ciders. In general, you'll find that we tend to make our ciders quite dry, with delicate flavours (including our berry and plum ciders), and that's the way we like them!
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mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Pét-Nat de L'Historien from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle pour at FHF 2024, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma has a floral character upfront, with apple skins, and gentle funk. Flavour is funky, with quite dry, with wild yeast, some mustiness, and a bit of earth. Wild and funky but a bit obscured.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2024 at 06:01
mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Brett & Barrel from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle pour at FHF 2024, pours a cloudy blonde with a small white head. Aroma is dominated by the brett upfront, with light oak, crisp apple skins. Flavour is funky and dry, with plenty of brett, oak, and apple skins. Not bone dry—there's just enough residual sweetness to make this very drinkable. Very good.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2024 at 06:01
mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Apple Gamay from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle pour at FHF 2024, pours a hazy dull blonde with a small white head. Aroma has gentle apple skins, a toxin of vinous notes, and very gentle funk. Flavour is crisp and vibrant, with lots of apple skins, some musty grape skins, and wild yeast. Cohesive and complex. Excellent.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2024 at 06:01
mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Apple Blackberry from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
7.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle pour at FHF 2024, pours a clear pale pinkish colour with a small white head. Aroma has gentle blackberries, some apple skins, and a touch of acidity. Flavour has a nice funky apple skin character, a touch of blackberry, and mustiness on the finish. Good base, which incorporates very gentle blackberry. Very good.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2024 at 06:01
BeerPlace
BeerPlace (11300) reviewed
Apple Blackberry from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
FHF 2024. Appearance: a bit hazy peachy. Aroma: some apples and yeasts. Taste: sharp, a bit tart, bubbly. Overall: meh.
Tried on 11 Aug 2024 at 00:40
BeerPlace
BeerPlace (11300) reviewed
Blackberry Yuzu from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
FHF 2024. Appearance: clear peachy with a weak white head. Aroma: berries with some apple notes. Taste: along the same lines, bubbly. Overall: pleasant.
Tried on 10 Aug 2024 at 23:17
BeerPlace
BeerPlace (11300) reviewed
Wild Pear & Quince from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
FHF 2024. Appearance: white with some peachy notes and white head. Aroma: some nice apples and quince, apple skins. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: good one.
Tried on 10 Aug 2024 at 22:47
BeerPlace
BeerPlace (11300) reviewed
Apple Gamay from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
FHF 2024. Appearance: a bit hazy peachy. Aroma: nice dry apples, some sweetness. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: good one.
Tried on 10 Aug 2024 at 22:36
BeerPlace
BeerPlace (11300) reviewed
Brett & Barrel from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
7.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
FHF 2024. Appearance: clody blonde with a white head. Aroma: dry, apples, apple skins, bold, some nice Brett. Taste: along the same lines, quite dry but still juicy. Overall: goos one.
Tried on 10 Aug 2024 at 22:34
BeerPlace
BeerPlace (11300) reviewed
Pét-Nat de L'Historien from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
2 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
FHF 2024. Appearance: almost clear pale golden. Aroma: nice dry and a little bit apples, apple skin and seeds. Taste: along the same lines, bone dry, no sweetness. Overall: I wish a bit of sweetness would stay here 🙂
Tried on 10 Aug 2024 at 22:30