It’s sunny sufficient and and getting hotter every day, that I’m worrying about retaining my seedlings and home crops from getting scorched within the sunroom. I’m amazed but once more by how shortly the seasonal shift can come.
Sooner or later, I’m nonetheless reaching for thick fluffy socks and hiding from the blustery winds and never lengthy after I’m carrying shades and shedding layers. The surprises are energizing! And this week, I needed to relish a reminiscence from final summer time’s journey to Indignant Orchard’s R&D facility in Walden, New York. Which means lastly opening up my Indignant Orchard’s Margil.
Over the ten years of this weblog, I’ve reviewed many choices from Indignant Orchard, together with a number of from the Walden location. Right here is an incomplete checklist.
Buddy King: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2022/11/cider-review-angry-orchards-buddy-king.html
Supernatural: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2019/03/cider-review-angry-orchard-super.html
Newtown Pippin: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2022/08/cider-review-angry-orchards-newtown.html
Baldwin: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2022/05/cider-review-angry-orchards-baldwin.html
Understood in Movement 2: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2020/02/cider-review-critz-farms-double-vision.html
Understood in Movement 3: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2018/08/cider-review-angry-orchard-ciders.html
Wood Sleeper: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2018/12/cider-review-angry-orchards-wooden.html
Spiced Apple: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2017/03/cider-review-angry-orchards-spiced-apple.html
Pear: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2018/05/very-perry-may-review-of-greenwood.html
Rosé: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2018/03/cider-review-angry-orchard-rose-and.html
Walden: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2016/09/cider-review-angry-orchards-walden.html
And if you need extra, simply click on on the Indignant Orchard Tag on any of those posts, and you’ll find the remaining.
I like to recommend visiting the Indignant Orchard web site to see the ciders and take a look at what’s occurring at The Treehouse in Walden, New York: https://www.angryorchard.com/.
Right here’s how the Margil is described on the Indignant Orchard web site.
This single varietal cider options solely the Margil apple. With no added sugar, it’s a brilliant off-dry providing with notes of pear and apple pores and skin aromatics. 6.4% ABV.
And from the label itself, “An apple with mysterious origins courting again to 18th century England (or possibly France), the Margil has biome a favourite of ours in Walden for its texture and aroma. With no added sugar, this off-dry cider is brilliant, recent, and offers energetic pear and apple pores and skin aromatics.”
And now for my tasting notes on Indignant Orchard’s Margil Cider.
Look: sensible, medium intense colour, pale straw
This cider has beautiful shining sensible and a pale straw colour. I can see a number of bubbles on the ring of the glass.
Aromas: Stone, cotton, apple pores and skin, vanilla
The Margil smells first of stone and cotton. Secondarily I get notes of cleanly-fermented fruit. It’s so totally different from most Indignant Orchard ciders. It doesn’t odor like unfermented candy fruits. I do get the impression of tart apple pores and skin.
Sweetness/dryness: Off-dry
It’s fascinating to isolate the sweetness on this cider. It doesn’t style notably candy, but it surely will need to have some sweetness to spherical out the opposite components that it has in such plentiful portions with out turning into extreme. Learn on to seek out out extra.
Flavors and tasting expertise: Very excessive tannins, medium-high acids, brilliant fruit notes, tiny bubbles
The Margil tastes subtle but playful. The cider is evenly glowing with tremendous bubbles and really excessive tannins, however they offer method to brilliant fruitiness. The acidity feels medium-high with a number of citrus notes. The tannins hold coming again to make their presence recognized with each sip. Gosh, I like this!
There are hints of sweetness, however the cider is decidedly not sugary. What’s there looks like a neat deep sweetness from the apple’s essence itself and never the residual sugars. The Margil is splendidly textural and evocative. This pleasant cider makes me consider ripe oranges, vanilla, and pears with tropical fruit notes on the end.
We had our bottle of Margil with a five-cheese pesto pizza and kale salad. The mix was great as a result of the cider helped me stay awake to the pleasant contrasting textures of a smooth pillowy crust, sharp curly kale leaves, and the melty cheeses. This must be one of many tastiest ciders I’ve ever had from the crew at Indignant Orchard. Scrumptious!
