Clos Saint-Denis Pomme de Glace

Brewed by Clos Saint-Denis
Style: Ice Cider
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada

Bottle… This cider rocks!… Clear golden cider with numerous, fantastic legs. The aroma is a concentrate of at least one hundred eighty, fresh, crisp, sweet apples. Full-bodied with a syrupy/velvety mouthfeel. Very sweet, but balanced perfectly by substantial acidity. A killer cider, this one. Thanks go out to TheCheeseMan for sharing this gem!

Gorgeous clear gold with soft rosey-pink shine; no head of course. Soft, delicate apple smell, interspecked with alcohol and an aroma of peach skin. Sweetish, faint mint and sage flavours, obvious apple, and mild touch of bitterish-sourish-tart, but all quite subdued. Explosive MF, titillating and velvety at the same time. Respectable alcohol impression. This is absolutely great, and yet at the opposite end of my usual favoured cider (West-country and South-Wales farmyard ciders). It’s delicate and powerful at the same time. Lubière, merci, this is just great.

Sampled from a 375ml bottle. Outstanding rich burnt amber apple colored body. No head, it’s a still cider so that’s expected, but the color and clarity is near perfect. Big boozy tart red apple nose. Peppery, robust, spicy and sticky - rich and full of caramel apples and sweet in the finish. The best apple cider I’ve tried so far. I think Rich brought this, so I have him to thank for the sample, it was awesome.

Bouteille de 375 ml. Dégusté dans un verre de style flute. Couleur Or clair avec de petit particule dans le milieu du verre, le liquide colle tres bien au verre. Aromes de purée de pomme, sucre brun, poire sur une finition d’alcool subtile. Beaucoup plus acide/sure que la moyenne mais dutout désagreable... Sensation de syrop et une bouche tres ronde et un peu huileuse. Explosion de saveur intense de pomme caramelisé et une touche de cannelle. Tres bon cidre!

375ml bottle bought locally for $29.99, so on par with La Face Pomme Neige. Pours a clear harvest yellow with etched legs, pretty well defined trickles down the glass. Aroma of citrus zest (tangy tartness) infused baked apple sauce, honey, tannins and vanilla. Brown sugar and baked goods as well. Excellent, aged ripe apples, tons of sweetness, of baked apples backed with a nice, well rounded tartness that evens out the strong sweetness and mild alcohol. An aftertaste of biting into a sweet yet crisp apple. JUICY! Extremely long duration. Ungodly syrupy mouthfeel, this stuff is viscous. Still as per every ice cider I have had. Another great Ice Cider, I would love to try more from this cidery!

Bouteille claire, de 200 ml, achetée au Festival Bières et Saveurs 2007 (Chambly, QC). Arôme: Odeur de pommes avec une pointe de litchis. Apparence: La couleur est dorée. Saveur: Goût de pomme avec une pointe de miel. Longue durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est plein avec une texture huileuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Présence de pomme en arrière goût. (Rating #1397)

Somehow missed this at bctc 07 but RLB shared another bottle at Erics place. Thanks Rich! This ice cider kicks ass. Pours a light golden slight chill haze and moderate long thick legs. Aroma is an apple brandy, and thick sweet condensed cider, apple juice, and a bit of green apple skin tartness on the edge of the tongue. Light solvent and acetadehyde flavor upfront when cold- sharp green apple as well, but smooths out into nice apple pie with fresh cider, light spice, and syrupy goodness in the end. Not too cloyingly sweet though. Nice full cider. Good stuff.

Bottle. Light golden yellow in colour, some alcohol legs on the glass. The aroma was of sugar glazed apple pie, cloves, cinnamon, slightly sweet with some alcohol coming through. The flavour was more or less the same as the aroma alongs with some nuts and pie crust, some alcohol. Sweet mouthfeel, warming feeling. Finishes with a lingering apple sweetness, slightly tart. Quite nice.