Pierre Huet – Cidre Bouché Doux

Cider Profile:

Name: Pierre Huet – Cidre Bouché Doux
Sampled February 2022

Brand: Calvados Pierre Huet Type: Apple – French Cidre Location of Brewing: Cambremer, France ABV: 2.5% Website Link: calvados-huet.com Ingredients: Apples, yeast, sulphites Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/A Size(s) available: 750ml (bottles) Availability: LCBO Vintages and globally available Flavour: Apple Colour: Rich, caramel translucent golden yellow Carbonation: Small streaming bubbles, foamy when poured.

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Strong aroma. Sweet fruit esters (yeast). Cellared. Pungent caramelized apples.
Initial Taste: Light bite. Quickly sweet, with rich caramelized apples, with some tannic element that makes it physically dry. Strong damp cellared taste.
After Taste: Apples dissipate steadily., leaving candied and fruity esters with dank notes that linger a long time. Mild stone fruit hints.
On ice: Lighter and less flavour overall.

Additional Notes:  The Cidre Bouché Doux (Sweet Cider) by Calvados Pierre Huet is a light cider that has a lot of flavour for being 2.5%.  Heavy on fruit esters, it’s very cellared/musty/aged tasting. Rich caramel apple notes, lightly candied but still quite full bodied. Decently sweet, because of the bittersweet apples used to make many French cidres.

Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 4
Sour – 1.5
Crisp – 2.5
Dry – 2.5
Fruity – 4

Next recommendations:
More Sweet –
More Sour – Le Pere Jules – Cidre de Normandie
More Dry – Kupela – Bizia Semi-Dry
More Crisp – Coat-Albret – Cidre Bouché d’Artisan Brut

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