Red Stone Sparkling Cider   

Cider Profile:

Name: Red Stone Sparkling Cider
Sampled December 2018
Updated: December 2021

Brand: Redstone Winery Type: Apple – Sparkling  Location of Brewing: Beamsville, ON ABV: 5.5% Website Link:  redstonewines.ca Ingredients: N/A Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/ASize(s) available: 473ml (Can) Availability: Redstone Winery Retail and Online Store Flavour: Apple Colour: Transparent, pale sunshine yellow Carbonation: Medium slow moving semi-streaming bubbles. Larger on ice.

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Medium aroma. Bright but dry fermented apples. Mild creaminess.
Initial Taste: Light bite from carbonation. Bright yet earthy apples, tasting rather dry and with little residual sugar. Some elements of the fermentation process obvious. Buttery notes like a chardonnay.
After Taste: Becomes tangier, with slight notes of green apple.  Stronger apple flavour further into the sip. Fermentation elements are reduced substantially, becomes decently clean to finish.
On ice: Becomes thinner, though the apple elements remain the same.  Less carbonation.

Additional Notes:  Not as sparkling as expected, and not as sweet as it smells, Red Stones’ Sparkling Cider has a unique taste that becomes more apple forward as it is consumed. It starts more heavily with the fermentation process flavour notes and finishes decently dry and cleaner. A lot of depth and approachable but still quite sophisticated. Invokes memories of a chardonnay with the body and buttery notes.

Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 3
Sour – 2.5
Crisp – 2.5
Dry – 3
Fruity – 3.5

Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Shiny Apple Cider
More Sour – County Apple Cider
More Dry – Tawse Sparkling Cider
More Crisp – Thornbury Original Apple Cider

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