Salt Spring Wild Cider House

Cidery in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada 🇨đŸ‡Ļ
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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Oakes
Oakes (34517) reviewed
Orange Peel Cyser from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Very pale, slight haze. Bright apple, with lots of ginger and a little bit of orange to round things out.
Tried on 14 Aug 2023 at 00:59
Oakes
Oakes (34517) reviewed
Strawberry Lemongrass from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pale pink colour. Sweet, but good quality with a flavoursome base cider and good adjunct balance, especially showcasing the strawberry.
Tried on 14 Aug 2023 at 00:58
Oakes
Oakes (34517) reviewed
Rose and Fir from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pale. Light rose on the aroma and palate. Hints of fir and the apple character is quite good. Nice adjunct balance here.
Tried on 14 Aug 2023 at 00:54
mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Strawberry Lemongrass from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2023, pours a cloudy dull pinkish peach with a small white head. Aroma brings out bright strawberry notes, wild bugs and some citrus. Flavour brings out bright strawberry notes, gentle lemongrass, cider, and wild yeast. Brightly carbonated, finishing with lots of strawberry. Decent for what it is.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2023 at 17:11
mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Rose and Fir from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2023, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out earthy twig-like notes, light bugs, and some floral notes. Flavour is floral and buggy, with wild yeast, floral notes, and bugs. Floral, dry and carbonated. Good stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2023 at 17:11
mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Orange Peel Cyser from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2023, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out gentle orange peel, light apple skins, and a touch of wild yeast. Flavour is dry and carbonated, with gentle orange peel, apple skins, and some wild yeast. Not the most complex or integrated. Pleasant stuff though.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2023 at 17:11
BeerPlace
BeerPlace (11300) reviewed
PÊt-Nat (aka Michelin PÊt Nat) from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
7.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
A taster shared with Josh, Matt, Phill, and Ryan during FHF WITH priceless Rachel's help (got it back!) in organizing all the mess with glasses. Appearance: hazy blonde with a white head. Aroma: nice semi-sweet fermented apples. Taste: same, bubbly, dry. Overal: good one.
Tried on 13 Aug 2023 at 00:29
BeerPlace
BeerPlace (11300) reviewed
Orange Peel Cyser from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
7.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
A taster shared with Josh, Matt, Phill, and Ryan during FHF WITH priceless Rachel's help (got it back!) in organizing all the mess with glasses. Appearance: a bit hazy blonde. Aroma: weird fermented apples with some botanicals. Taste: kinda better, more apples, less herbs. Overall: pretty good.
Tried on 12 Aug 2023 at 23:23
BeerPlace
BeerPlace (11300) reviewed
Rose and Fir from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
7.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
A taster shared with Josh, Matt, Phill, and Ryan during FHF WITH priceless Rachel's help (got it back!) in organizing all the mess with glasses. Appearance: clear blonde with a white head. Aroma: nice sweet apples. Taste: same, but it's quite soapy. Overall: ok.
Tried on 12 Aug 2023 at 23:21
mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Farmhouse Scrumpy from Salt Spring Wild Cider House
3 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2023, pours a hazy golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma brings out gentle funk, some earthiness and gentle acidity. Flavour is pretty much bone dry, with apple core, light wild character and some earthiness. Falls a bit flat but is well-attenuated and has some decent earthy funk.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jun 2023 at 02:44