HANCOCK, MAINE — Bon Vent Cider is opening their tasting room this spring in Hancock on Route 1. The not too long ago licensed cidery affords onerous cider made out of apples and pears gleaned and foraged round Hancock, Aroostook, and some different counties.
“So many bushes on roadsides, in parks, or dooryards are cider fruit,” says Anne Bryant, co-owner of Bon Vent. “When you’ve got bushes that produce fruit that the outdated timers would name ‘spitters,’ you most likely have cider fruit in your arms.”
The tasting room has bottles on the market, in addition to some draft choices and non-alcoholic seltzers. Presently the corporate is elevating cash through Kickstarter to outfit their tasting room, which will even host outdated time music bands or lesser-known touring bands that can make their method via the area this summer time. At their nicely attended delicate opening on Could 4, Gus La Casse and Mathias Kamin performed conventional music together with buddies who got here with devices.
Onerous cider is a straightforward product that begins with urgent entire fruit, simply as one would with candy cider. To ferment that juice, Bon Vent doesn’t usually want so as to add any further yeast or sugar, and far of the flavour comes from the naturally occuring yeast that got here to be on the fruit within the place the place it was. Since most of the bushes they harvest from are by the ocean, and since the fruit may need various quantities of tannins, the blended ciders are akin to wine that has complicated terroir and depth of taste. The ensuing product will be anyplace between about 3–8% alcohol, and is usually blended with blueberry wine, which in addition they make.
“Our hottest cider at our delicate opening was by far our Lamoine Pét Nat,” says Bryant. “We made that solely of apples gathered in Lamoine and I overheard company evaluating it to a dry champagne they’ve loved.”
Bon Vent might be asserting common hours and a Grand Opening quickly, however they encourage guests to cease by each time the open flag is out, which might be Thursday via Sunday within the late afternoon and early night.
Extra info and a video in regards to the house owners and their cider will be discovered on the Kickstarter web page. Bon Vent, pronounced “bon von” in French, means honest wind or secure travels.
