Salt Spring Wild Cider House

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

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151 Sharp Rd, Salt Spring Island, Salt Spring Island, V8K 2P6, Canada
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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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2024, pours a cloudy blonde, no head. Aroma is soft and muddled, with some hay, light acidity, and soft apple core. Flavour is aggressive, with lots of hay, apple core and gentle acidity. A bit too abrasive without the integration and complexity to boot. Meh.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2024 at 06:52


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2024, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of guava juice and pineapple, with light acidity. Flavour is very juicy, with intense pineapple upfront, followed by aggressive guava, and light apple acidity. Juicy and well-integrated. Not complex but quite pleasant.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2024 at 06:49


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2024, pours a clear pink with a small white head. Aroma is pretty light, with soft red berry and gentle acidity. Flavour is lightly sweet, with red berry and gentle acidity. Not much complexity but there's decent balance. Meh.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2024 at 06:49


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2024, pours a clear pale pink with a small white head. Aroma has earthy rhubarb, plenty of tartness and medium acidity. Flavour is moderately tart, with lots of apple core, subtle earthiness from the rhubarb and lots of acidity. A bit too much apple core but not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2024 at 06:48


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

355 ml can. Pours a faded dull gold color. Aromas of applesauce and a bit of guava. Flavors of same. Not getting any pineapple.

Tried from Can on 03 Jun 2024 at 22:11


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750mL bottle, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma has some spicy peppers, apple skins, and a touch of pineapples. Flavour is juicy sweet, with tons of pineapple, spicy peppers, and apple skins. Very sweet to match the spice. Nothing interesting but it's decent.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Dec 2023 at 17:55


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

750ml @ Black Christmas 2023 at Heritage Hall. Appearance: hazy pale golden. Aroma: spices, some sweetness and apples. Taste: along the same lines, spicy, red apples, moderately sweet. Overall: interesting.

Tried on 16 Dec 2023 at 03:32


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Poured from bottle. Clear pale pink with no head. Perfumey, apple, mild rhubarb.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2023 at 18:59


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Poured from bottle. Clear blonde with no head. Mild apple skins, gentle citrus hops, not picking up much apricot though. Okay.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2023 at 18:55


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Poured from bottle. Hazy yellow with no head. Decent ginger underlay permeating throughout. Okay.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2023 at 18:53