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Clover Cottage, Burnside Lane, Conon Bridge, IV7 8EX, Scotland
Description
We’re a small independent cidery founded in 2014 in Conon Bridge on the Black Isle just north of Inverness. This is our exploration of cider at its northern frontier. The aim for our cider is to reflect as far as possible our local Highland terroir.
We use every locally grown apple we can get our hands on whether they’re grown in gardens or orchards, sharp cookers, juicy eaters or bitter wee cider apples, we find a use for them all. Our cider apple orchards are among the most northerly in Europe and provide us the perfect starting point for all our blends.
We only ever ferment freshly pressed juice using wild yeast found naturally on the apples and in the cidery itself. We both ferment and mature in oak barrels at ambient temperature. This ensures a cold, slow fermentation which tracks the natural weather fluctuations as we head through the winter and into spring, it’s not uncommon during the depths of winter for the juice to freeze solid for a few days at a time. With Every vintage bringing it’s own unique character the barrels are blended by taste to produce our individual ciders or are set aside for one of our single cask bottlings.
We use every locally grown apple we can get our hands on whether they’re grown in gardens or orchards, sharp cookers, juicy eaters or bitter wee cider apples, we find a use for them all. Our cider apple orchards are among the most northerly in Europe and provide us the perfect starting point for all our blends.
We only ever ferment freshly pressed juice using wild yeast found naturally on the apples and in the cidery itself. We both ferment and mature in oak barrels at ambient temperature. This ensures a cold, slow fermentation which tracks the natural weather fluctuations as we head through the winter and into spring, it’s not uncommon during the depths of winter for the juice to freeze solid for a few days at a time. With Every vintage bringing it’s own unique character the barrels are blended by taste to produce our individual ciders or are set aside for one of our single cask bottlings.
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from Good Spirits, Glasgow. Orangey gold colour, white foam head that dissipates away and aroma of fruity apples. Taste is tangy apple, woody, funky, orchardy, with some tartness and citric notes. Medium bodied, low carbonation, dry slightly tart acidic finish. Nicely drinkable
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2019
at 16:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from Good Spirits, Glasgow. 5%. Deep amber gold colour, white foamy head that quickly dissipates away and aroma of mellow apple, woody, some caramel. Taste is fruity apple, juicy, with woody oak, vanilla, and tangy, some tannin. Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, dry woody oaky tangy. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2019
at 18:31
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bag in box at the jolly judge. Pours golden orange, nose is toffee, Apple, zesty, taste is juicy apple, zesty, toffee.
Tried
on 19 May 2019
at 09:31