I’m writing a bit early this week, as a result of I’ll be touring quickly. I’m so excited to be headed for New Orleans for the primary time for the reason that Nineteen Nineties! I prefer to take a Winter journey after I can, and I’ve longed to return to New Orleans for a really very long time. It ought to be a walking-heavy mix of meals, spooky stuff, nice meals, and many enjoyable in *fingers crossed* higher climate than the top of February in upstate New York.
That is my third entry about Seminary Hill Cider out of Callicoon, New York. This small impartial cidery has been making lovely ciders and doing tastings and occasions at a stunning environmentally centered cidery within the Catskills. Try my earlier overview and roundup to be taught extra about this boutique vacation spot cidery.
Spherical up, during which I share brief ideas on the 2021 Beechwoods, Nicksen, 2020 Semi-Candy Cackling Hen, Tom’s Beard, and Spy Who Got here in From the Chilly: https://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2023/10/cider-review-seminary-hill-cider-roundup.html
Delaware Dry (my #8 favourite cider of 2023): https://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2023/12/cider-review-seminary-hill-ciders.html
I like to recommend going to the Seminar Hill Cidery web site to be taught extra about this Catskills Cidery and all the ciders and occasions there: https://www.seminaryhill.co/
Look: good, bubbly, intense nectarine
What a beautiful cider. I admire the bubbles dancing from the underside of my glass and ringing the liquid. The SHOC Property Reserve delivers an intense shade that jogs my memory of nectarine flesh.
Aromas: peaches, ripe apples, pineapple, golden flower petals
This cider smells deliciously like peaches, pineapples, and ripe apples. Secondarily, I get a whiff of unpolluted spring inexperienced and one thing connotes golden petals.
Sweetness/Dryness: Off Dry
It is a fantastically balanced off dry cider. It has sufficient sweetness to maintain fruit to the forefront of the expertise, however it’s remarkably restrained.
Flavors and consuming expertise: Off dry, zingy, peachy, structured, creamy, perfumed end
The SHOC Property Reserve maintains its off-dry steadiness with off-the-charts acid, substantial tannins, and plentiful fruit notes. It comes throughout first as zingy and peachy. The cider develops in its midpalate right into a full creamy physique that is still structured by the tannins. As a doubtlessly unusual metaphor, I’d say this cider lifts weights!
I additionally word a number of vinous flavors and a little bit of inviting earthiness. What I believe I really like most is how concentrated taste stays from begin to end. The small energetic bubbles and perfumed end full an totally pleasant beverage. That is one I’d be proud to position on the essential meals of my life, however I’m additionally thrilled that I obtained to take pleasure in it with a easy supper the day earlier than my journey. Good cider is for particular events, however it’s additionally for on a regular basis life.
One final little preview of what’s to come back. I’ve been doing this weblog for greater than ten years now, and I’ve developed an everyday posting schedule and a little bit of a template for posts. Within the subsequent few months, I’ll experiment with how Alongside Got here a Cider shares. I’ll be posting twice a month quite than weekly. That’s so I can probably share some authentic recipes utilizing cider, write extra posts about cider out on the earth, my experiences at cider occasions, and check out another issues. I need to preserve myself on my toes; ideas are welcome.
