It’s virtually New York Cider Week! It is a busy time of yr; there are extra folks I’d like to see and issues I’d like to do than time. I tasted this cider with the Tall One this night for 2 causes. One, this was a present from my expensive buddy Maria who’s off on her personal cider adventures; it’s a pleasant strategy to keep in mind a faraway buddy. Two, Alex is practising taking tasting notes for a sure upcoming cider examination in lower than two weeks! Many due to Maria for this necessary research help!
Earlier than I get into my evaluation although, let me encourage people to take a look at details about this fall’s New York Cider Week: https://ciderweeknewyork.com/
Pennings Cidery has a restricted run cider known as the Wild Sequence: The Continental. It’s my first ever evaluation of something by this Warwick, New York cidery. You could find this farm and cidery within the Hudson Valley. The farm is house not solely to the cidery itself but additionally a tasting room and farm that grows apples, pumpkins, nectarines, apricots and peaches. I sense a sure taste profile right here!
And that is just a bit bit from Pennings Farm Cidery’s web site concerning the Wild Sequence Continental venture.
With nutrient-rich soil and micro-climate circumstances, it’s no shock that the Hudson Valley area has been an agricultural hub for greater than 200 years. What wasn’t farmed, grew naturally by itself. Among the many apple timber, we planted in our personal orchard was one such wild seedling apple tree. In 2018 that tree produced an abundance of apples that we picked to be the principle ingredient in our first Wild Sequence Cider, The Continental. Wild apples present traits that can’t be present in culinary apples from cultivated timber. Our Wild Sequence Ciders will come from such wild seedling timber rising freely all through the Hudson Valley. Once we declare to be #CiderCountry right here in Warwick, NY.
And right here’s only a bit about how the cidery describes the cider’s style.
The Cider Notes
You’ll be comfortable with the primary sip of The Continental. The tropical fruit aromatics and taste supply a mood-lifting first impression, adopted by a superb medium physique end that marches throughout your palate with a refined texture and depth from the tannin-heavy skins.
I like to recommend visiting the Penning’s Farm Cidery web page to study extra: https://www.penningscidery.com/.
Look: intense nectarine colour, light haze, sediment, seen bubbles
I like the wealthy darkish nectarine pores and skin colour! It’s hazily golden with some sediment even on the primary two pours. I may see some tiny bubbles rising to the highest.
Aromas: selfmade applesauce, butterscotch, apricot, toffee and nuts
As quickly as I poured the Wild Sequence, I seen its highly effective and interesting applesauce aroma. I’m a sucker for that scent. Sniffing deeper revealed notes of butterscotch, toffee, and toasted nuts. I virtually marvel if barrel getting old was concerned.
Dryness/sweetness: Dry
It is a really dry cider. It doesn’t style solely difficult or austere. The Wild Sequence Continental has lots occurring. Learn on for extra.
Flavors and consuming expertise: peach, orange, baking spices, chipotle pepper, tannins and acid
The Wild Sequence Continental’s taste comes throughout as extra restrained than daring, however the cider is certainly fruity. I can style peach and orange. One in every of my co-tasters bought notes of apricots. Secondarily the cider is redolent with notes of baking spices and smoky chipotle pepper.
By way of mouthfeel, the cider is petillant with a relaxed degree of sparkle. It’s excessive acid and tannic; repeated sips emphasize the papery tannins and apple bark notes The Wild Sequence has a light-weight angular physique and a lingering fruit leather-based and limestone end.
We loved it very a lot with our first chili of the yr.
