Bayfield Schneewittchen

Brewed by Bayfield Winery
Style: Cider
Bayfield, Wisconsin USA

Thanks to skyview for sharing. Light cider nose with some woodiness. Light apple flavor with a dry mouthfeel.

From Skyview. Apple aroma. Light gold, not much else to say about the appearance. Some heat from alcohol. Just a little sugar with a thin palate. Dry.

[Bottle, thanks Skyview] Pours clear light golden. The flavor and aroma are, not surprisingly dominated by a good deal of apple with a lot of alcohol. Quite sweet overall, at times it almost tasted like there was honey in there. Medium mouthfeel. I really don’t know what else to say...this wasn’t a bad cider at all, but I just found it to be very plain and unable to stand out in any way.

Thanks to Skyview for sharing. Light yellow color with no head. A slightly sour apple aroma and a bit of white wine (pinot gris?). Mainly tart apple flaovr. A little sugary, but not overly so. The grape flavor is more like Gewertztraminer than anything else. Quite smooth and delicious.

Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Clear, oily blonde appearance. Foremost aroma is of black licorice and peppery raw anise; tart apple skins and pears with some honey sweetness and an increase of warmth as it breathes. Flavors of white grapes, Gewertztraminer possibly, juicy apples, honey, and a satisfying dry spiciness that whisks away the moisture in the mid palate. Palate is smooth and delicate, showing no alcohol; wet and tart toward the finish, which dries out in a refreshing, quenching finale. A well done, evocative example with a good balance of complexity and simplicity. Thanks for sharing, Bob!

Picked up a 750 ml bottle at the Washburn IGA in Washburn, Wisconsin (north of Ashland). Beverage pours a clear light golden apple cider with some thin viscosity tears inside the glass sides. Aroma of dry apples in an oak wooden bushel basket, a touch of tried maple leaves with some light vanilla. Taste is dry apple fruity flavor, not watery but a decent apple flavor that shouts "Wisconsin autumn!" (one has to be there to understand this). Finish has a dry apple and smooth oak aftertaste that has a some nice refreshing flavors.

Brought back by my daughter from the Bayfield Apple Festival. Still, golden color. Farmyard, musty aroma. Oaky and fairly dry. Refreshing with lots of character.

750 ml bottle purchased from the winery/ciderhouse in Bayfield, WI (August 2006), served just above fridge temperature in a Gouden Carolus glass. Pours still, clear and faintly oily gold with thin legs showing shortly on the glass....old, musty dry apples and a rustic decaying barnyard, faint oaky vanilla in the pungent aroma....the body is dry, vinous, quite still, just lightly alcoholic, nicely warming but never boozy, somewhat hard grassy-herbal qualities at the front but smoothing out midpalate, becoming warmer and mellow though it remains quite dry, lightly funky/mineralic and tart to the finish. I was told this was a "traditional German"-style cider but have no idea what that means, no German ciders being available to me; in any case, it’s a solid dry-tart strong cider and recommended to those who can get it.