This weekend I acquired to attend my first ever gaming conference. I strolled downtown to benefit from the first ever FLAG Con (Finger Lakes Space Gaming Conference). It was an excellent and completely overwhelming expertise. I performed 1 board sport and 4 tabletop position enjoying video games in 3 days, and that features my first expertise working a one-off con sport. On the finish of every day, my voice was completely destroyed. Once I was dwelling Sunday night after my sport, I wanted one thing calm, mature, and complex for my cider alternative. That’s why I alternative Black Diamond Cider’s 2021 Redfield/Wickson Crab to accompany my dinner and rest.
Black Diamond Cider relies out of Trumansburg, New York. It’s an incredible small cidery out of really unimaginable orchard. Yow will discover extra background data in my earlier evaluations. I purchased this cider as a returning member of Black Diamonds Apple and Cider CSA.
Listed below are all my Black Diamond Cider evaluations.
The Moosewood Black Diamond Pairing Dinner: https://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2022/10/cider-week-new-york-moosewood.html
2021 Black is Gold a collaboration with Redbyrd Orchard Cider(My #1 cider of 2021): http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2021/11/cider-review-black-diamond-farm-and.html
Black Diamond Cider’s 2018 Rosé: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2020/09/cider-review-eden-ciders-peak-bloom-and.html
Shin Hole: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2020/08/cider-review-mountain-west-ciders-sweet.html
Jaywalker: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2020/03/cider-review-alpenfires-dungeness-and.html
Geneva Tremlett’s: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2019/03/cider-review-black-diamonds-geneva.html
Somerset Jersey: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2019/05/very-perry-may-with-vandermills-ice-ice.html
Slatestone: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2018/11/cider-reviews-big-hill-ciderworks.html
Hickster: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2016/12/cider-review-black-diamond-ciders.html
Porter’s Pommeau: https://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2017/09/finger-lakes-cider-week-and-birthday.html
Solstice: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2017/08/cider-review-black-diamonds-solstice.html
Rabblerouser: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2015/09/cider-review-black-diamonds.html
Black Diamond Cidery’s web site is the very best place to search out out the newest information with this Finger Lakes cidery: https://www.blackdiamondcider.com/
2021 Redfield/Wickson Crab
The berry-filled essence and mushy tannins of Redfield mixed with intense acidity and wealthy sugars of Wickson Crab create this cider which is full-bodied, fruit-forward and with simply sufficient sweetness to mood its racy acidity.
Within the cidery: Subject mix of Redfield and Wickson Crab pressed 1 month after harvest. DV10 yeast. Bottled nonetheless after 8 months of growing older. 20 Instances produced.
In your glass: Aromas of stone fruit and white grape. Mouthwatering acidity, cherry and peach.
Varieties: Wickson Crab (80%), Redfield (20%)
Alcohol: 8% Residual Sugar: 0.75%
Figuring out that this will probably be a nonetheless semi-dry cider with my favourite crab apple makes me further interested by it.
Look: delicate straw colour, sensible, nonetheless
This cider is totally nonetheless and sensible. The colour is a gently heat straw.
Aromas: star fruit, peach, apple, cherry & minerals
Considered one of my favourite issues about Black Diamond ciders are the aromas. They by no means fade away;
I’m amazed by the depth of the Star fruit, ripe peach, apple and mineral aromas. The peach and cherry from the official description is totally correct.
Dryness/Sweetness: Semi-dry
It is a semi-dry cider. I normally have the dry finish of Black Diamond’s ciders, however this has a great deal of attraction.
Flavors and consuming expertise: fruity, citrus, extraordinarily excessive acid, wine like
The very first thing I observed when the cider touched my tongue is its extraordinarily excessive acid. The cider tastes fruity, with a great deal of citrus. The actual method that this cider is semi dry is that it approaches sweetly after which goes to semi dry. It’s a nonetheless and luscious cider with a heavy mouthfeel. The impression that lingers is one among peach and apple. I feel this could be an enormous hit for followers of cool-climate semi-dry white wines like Riesling or Gewurztraminer.
