Heartwood – Raspy Poet
Cider Profile:
Name: Heartwood – Raspy Poet
Sampled April 2024
| Brand: Heartwood Farm & Cidery Type: Flavoured – Raspberry Location of Brewing: Ospringe, ON ABV: 6.8% Website Link: heartwoodfarm.ca Ingredients: N/A Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/A Size(s) available: 750ml (bottle) |
Cider Crate Tasting Notes:
Smell: Mild aroma. Pulpy raspberry. Some sharp apple elements.
Initial Taste: Medium bite. Semi-dry and funky apples that are sharp and slightly bright. Earthy, early season raspberry. Some fleshy elements and some tannic notes.
After Taste: Become more woodsy in aftertaste, with a bit more dryness. Doesn’t really linger (some of the wild fermentation elements do though).
On ice: Thinner and a lot less overall flavour. Muted.
Additional Notes: Heartwood’s Raspy Poet is a fermentation forward, funky element leading cider with a touch of infuse-tasting (not juicy) raspberry. It has a lot of earth and woody elements that clear out and finish with mostly fermentation notes (no apple or raspberry in the aftertaste). This is mostly about the bottle conditioning and the fermentation, less about the fruit flavours.
Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 2
Sour – 3.5
Crisp – 1.5
Dry – 4
Fruity – 2.5
Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Thornbury – Raspberry Apple
More Sour – Archibalds – Raspberry Cider
More Dry –
More Crisp – Shale Ridge – Raspberry Lemon Verbana
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