Assessment of Fenceline’s first cider membership cargo, together with Whip & Tongue, Spur Bearer, and Pommeau. It’s my first time attempting their cider. I’m doing this as a mega overview since its a cider membership cargo.
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Cider: Whip & Tongue / Spur Bearer / Pommeau
Cidery: Fenceline Cider & Wine
Cidery Location: Mancos CO
ABV: 6.8% / 6.7% / 22%
How Equipped: 750ml bottles
Type: American craft orchard-based heritage cider
Availability: shipped to ~ 40 of fifty states (see right here for his or her 4x/12 months cider membership and right here for particular person bottle gross sales), native pickup, and retail gross sales in Colorado & Arizona (see right here for particulars)
Whip & Tongue Description: The Whip & Tongue is our expression of a Bittersharp cider. The fruit was sourced from highest high quality, Colorado Grown, English-style cider apples out there. Aged in French oak casks, this cider is effectively balanced and fruit ahead. The wealthy layers of tannin and malic acid born into this outdated world fruit presents the tongue with a myriad of flavors.
Spur Bearer Description: This cider is crafted from uncommon, crimson fleshed apples which might be shut family members of the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan. At their core, these apples are crimson crimson, and their flesh is bursting with a myriad of untamed flavors. With roots that stretch again to the Eurasian steppe, crimson fleshed apples are hearty and effectively tailored for all times right here within the arid west. This cider is advanced, tart, and tastes of summer time melon and tropical pineapple.
Pommeau Description: Pommeau is historically a French product and very fashionable in Normandy. A choose quantity of this 100 proof apple brandy product turns into the alcohol base and preservative for contemporary apple juice that we age in bourbon barrels. This distinctive spirit, referred to as Pommeau, lives in between the daring and better proof Calvados and the candy and tart of the cider it was born from. Fenceline’s Pommeau is constructed from a bittersweet apple mix, which we then distilled at Honey Home Distilling in Durango, Colorado. As soon as blended with contemporary apple juice, the ultimate combination is then left to age in used bourbon barrels for 12 months. The result’s a vivid concord of candy, tannic, and tart – true to the cider apples and the mountain orchards from which it got here.
Cidery Description: Fenceline produces hand-crafted Cider & Wine situated in Mancos, Co. They’re on a mission to protect the wealthy apple and fruit legacy of this excessive desert and mountain area by sourcing components straight from the neighborhood orchards primarily based within the Southwest. The cidery’s Mancos-based faucet room pairs Fencline’s merchandise with dwell music, meals vans, and an outdoor patio for the last word tasting expertise.
Value: n/a (retails for $59 + delivery each 3 months)
The place Purchased: n/a
The place Drank: dwelling
How Discovered: the cidery contacted me
Whip & Tongue Tasting Notes: Gentle amber hue. Very low carbonation with some foam. Smells candy, of oak, and alcohol-forward. Semi-dry. Gentle bodied. Reasonable tartness. Low acidity. Low tannins. Hints of bitterness. No funk or sourness. Notes of wealthy advanced bittersharp apple, oak, leather-based, and lemon. Lengthy tannic oak end. Reasonable general taste depth and apple taste. Excessive oak affect. Reasonable to excessive complexity. Reasonable sessionability.
Spur Bearer Tasting Notes: Peach hue. Very low carbonation. Smells of candy, of watermelon. On the sweeter facet of semi-dry. Gentle bodied. Reasonable tartness and acidity. No bitterness, sourness, funk, or tannins. Notes of pineapple, watermelon, and raspberry. Reasonable size end. Reasonable general taste depth, complexity, and sessionability. Low apple taste.
Pommeau Tasting Notes: Reasonable amber hue. No carbonation. Smells candy and alcohol-forward. Semi-dry to semi-sweet. Medium bodied. Reasonable tartness. Low acidity. Low bitterness. Hints of tannins. No sourness or funk. Notes of baked apple, caramel, leather-based, brown sugar, and orange. Reasonable to excessive complexity and general taste depth. Low apple taste and sessionability.
My Opinion: I actually loved all three. Particularly that they weren’t tremendous dry or acidic (which is widespread with heritage ciders). Superb complexity. The Whip & Tongue was my favourite although, with a beautiful scent and wealthy oaky taste.
Closing Notes: See right here for more information on their cider membership, which incorporates cider seasonally, each 3 months (~ Jan, April, July, Oct) plus different advantages (together with a reduction on further bottles).
Have you ever tried Fenceline Cider? What did you suppose?
