I’ve been again from Norway for a number of days now, thanks a lot in your endurance whereas I took every week off from running a blog to see someplace utterly new and completely different. It was a superb expertise full of public artwork, strolling new neighborhoods, listening to the sounds of unfamiliar languages, and seeing many alternative sorts of climate over the course of 4 days! After all discovering a Norwegian cider needed to be precedence, so right here’s what I considered Aga Sideri’s Bøddel.
I discovered Aga Sideri’s – Bøddel Sider frå Hardanger [Pages from Hardanger] at a vinmonopolet in Oslo. (I mangle this phrase in my thoughts, as a result of it jogs my memory of a mixture of the app Venmo and the french phrase for rooster, poulet). In actuality, it’s a wine and spirits monopoly owned by the federal government. They’ve unbelievable labeling, and I used to be capable of get good educated assist discovering a cider that’s each dry and bubbly. I did need to improve my odds of discovering simply the suitable cider for me. That’s how I selected to strive Bøddel Sider by Aga Sideri.
Wanting up a bit about Aga Sideri on-line and utilizing Google Translate provides me this extra data. All of that is from the web site.
Go to for your self right here: https://www.agasideri.no/
Aga Sideri lies idyllically between excessive mountains, within the coronary heart of Hardanger.
Joar Aga is a seventh-generation farmer at Aga, and began Aga Sideri in 2018. The backyard is near each mountains and fjords, surrounded by cultural heritage and huge tei. Right here in Sørfjorden there is a wonderful local weather for fruit rising, in addition to a wealthy custom for silk manufacturing. On steep slopes, we develop a handful of various apple varieties which we rigorously harvest and course of to be used in each should and cider.
I used Google to translate the outline of the cider, and that is what I obtained. Please forgive any imperfections right here! I’m additionally together with a short historical past from the cider web site about the one that impressed the identify of this cider.
Apple selection: Aroma, Gravenstein, Bramley’s Seedling and James Grieve
Alcohol: 9%
Quantity: 750 ml
Sweetness: Dry
Appropriate for: Savory dishes (cured meals, tacos)
Historical past of Executioner
Samson Isberg (1795-1873) grew up on the farm Isberg, simply south of Aga. He moved away from his father and stepmother early on, and joined the navy in Bergen. In 1834 he obtained work as an executioner. He was Norway’s penultimate executioner, and the primary prince to have your complete nation as his official space. Regardless of his gloomy skilled title, Samson was portrayed as a kind-hearted and fashionable man. After fifteen executions, Samson retired. As the top of his life approached, he stated “will probably be arduous to fulfill them once more on the opposite aspect, the individuals I’ve parted with my life.
I’ll admit, I nearly didn’t choose the cider with the large axe on the bottle, however learn on to learn how it tastes! However wanting on the increased than common ABV, the truth that it lists particular apple varieties, plus being promised as each bubbly and dry, I needed to strive it.
Look: delicate heat straw, good, lively bubbles
The cider is a pale shade of heat straw colour with delicate depth. What’s much less delicate is the cider’s brilliance with effervescent bubbles.
Aromas: minerals, trace of risky acidity, pear, salt
The Boddel smells minerally with hints of risky acidity and salt. Extra persistently I detect fruit notes like pear. These aromas undoubtedly create a salivary response.
Sweetness/dryness: Dry
As promised, it is a dry cider! I’m so excited. I by no means fairly know find out how to interpret a brand new description of sweetness or dryness, however there’s nothing higher than accuracy!
Flavors and ingesting expertise: excessive tannins, excessive acidity, plentiful high-quality bubbles.
I’m so thrilled with how the Boddel tastes! I like that it gives each excessive acids and excessive tannins. That’s my first impression. Secondarily, the huge portions of tiny bubbles are simply so pleasing. Yum!
The tannins hit first with this cider—these are completely different apples than my co-taster and I are used to. The pear notes come out to play together with pepper and vanilla. The mix warms up the entire expertise. I don’t discover how highly effective the acids are till nearly the cider’s end. I respect that even with excessive acids and excessive tannins, the tasting expertise stays rounded, full, and even custardy. Might the cider be barrel aged maybe? I don’t know, nevertheless it’s stony and delicate directly. The Boddel is cleanly fermented and splendidly nuanced. I like this tremendous refined cider.
We had ours with scrumptious pizza in a lodge room whereas watching April snow falling exterior. It’s a pairing and a reminiscence, I’ll fortunately treasure.
