 CapFlu (3273), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Dec 5, 2005 (375ml bottle) Purchased at the Marche des Saveurs, Montreal, for $17.38. Pours a lightly gold body with a thin viscosity. Nose of tart apples. Acidic flavour and a tart finish. Not what I describe as outstanding.
Goldorak (424), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nov 21, 2005 Had the viscosity and golden color of peanut oil.
Aromas at first were nothing but harsh effluves of neutral alcohol, but as the glass warmed slowly in my hand, an interesting herbal, spruce character developped, that then turned into a strange, spicy, almost curry-like finish.
As original as the the smell became, the taste however left strongly to be desired. I think they seriously botched their batch, because it was way over-attenuated, you could barely register any apple sweetness at all, it tasted like a watered down Calvados, a little crushed apple seed and wood finish. I don’t know what type of ’roided up yeast they used for this one, it cloked in at a whopping 14% ABV, at least 2% over the limit proposed by producers wanting to give ice ciders a controlled appelation (apple-ation, get it?), and I’m willing to bet it didn’t have enough residual sugars to to be up to specs. With the cloying blanket off, all that’s left was acidity and alcohol, it was totally unbalanced. My girfriend took two sips of her glass and she had enough. I barely finished mine, and the rest of the bottle I’ll use to deglaze something.
MartinT (4316), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jul 3, 2005 For this ice cider, they claim to harvest the apples straight from the trees in winter...Well, if this is true, they just don’t do it as convincingly as Face Cachée de la Pomme or Pinnacle, this is leagues away from Frimas and Pinnacle Signature Réserve in decadence, class, and plain old apple flavor...Faint sweet fruitiness does not necessarily recall apples, and is overcome by a sturdy vinous tartness in the back...Rather thick, which is well-done for the style, but that shy sweetness and those aqueous notes do not belong in the ice ciders I prefer...Alcohol is well-hidden here, which is not the case (to my tongue of course) of their many mistelles and fruit-based liqueurs...
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