By: Erin James
Contained by a swing-top, this cider popped out of the bottle like the release of a Champagne cork, mighty bubbles spilling out the scents of sour, sidra-like apple. Add in…
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Review: Zeffer Cider Hop Infused Cider
Hawkes Bay might be best known as the oldest and second largest wine region in New Zealand — touting similar soils and climate to France’s famed Bordeaux — but it…
Review: Eden Ciders Harvest Cider
You had me at “apple sunshine in a can.” The Harvest Cider — a canned offering from Vermont’s Eden Ciders — places this descriptor on its equally sunny orange and…
Review: Citizen Cider For Shore Gose-Style
Because apple is incredible amiable, it lends itself to a lot of flavors — some borrowed from the beer world, some from the wine. In For Shore from Vermont’s Citizen…
Review: SARO Cider Ardennes
A joint operation of friends and family, SARO Cider launched in late 2018 as Nebraska’s first cider-only producer. With influences from beer but a devotion to the apple, the wide…
Review: Snow Capped Cider Plum Lemongrass
The Williams family has been orcharding in Colorado’s Western Slope since the early 1900s. Five generations later, the family orchards are located at the bottom of Grand Mesa in the…
Review: Honey Moon Mead & Cider Semi-Sweet CiderHead
According to Honey Moon Mead & Cider, a CiderHead is, simply enough, someone who loves cider. Thus, giving the house cider the same moniker of CiderHeads is perhaps foreshadowing its…
Big Pippin Cider Prickly Pear & Orange Blossom
Dear Castle Hill Cider, you had us at the JAY-Z reference. Big Pippin Cider — the new line of quality-committed, modern cider made by the heritage cider-focused Virginia maker —…
Review: Martinelli’s Gold Medal 1868 Old Fashioned Hard Cider
As an American, it should be difficult to drink this cider and not get nostalgic. Martinelli’s Gold Medal 1868 Old Fashioned Hard Cider smells remarkably like its more-famous, nonalcoholic counterpart. According to the juice…
Review: Ross on Wye Cider Medium Dry Still
Apples have been grown and pressed on Broome Farm in Herefordshire since the 1930s. Today, the show at Ross on Wye Cider is run the same way as it was then…