The cider group of the Cider Bar El Tastu from Uviéu keeps meeting weekly and tasting new ciders as seen in the picture.
THE CIDER.- Two British ciders of the two main brands. The first, Merry Down started in 1946 by Jak Ward smashed in a lent cider mill more than 300 years ago with the first idea of doing wine, offers us a cider with 6 % alcohol, very fruity with added gas and a moderate sugar proportion that makes it a medium cider, very pale and complex with its features of coupage as a reminiscence of the old aspirations of the mill around wine, very commercial and available for all tastes.
There was tasted also a Henney’s cider vintage 2012 with 6’5 % alcohol, a cider mith more character, more like the new ciders with less gas, intense apple smell and traces of herb, taste of apricot or mature fruits, a cider suitable to go along with something as snack.
To end and after a long way there was a bottle from the Pyrenees courtesy of Daniel pedrayes, presented in 750 cc bottle and with the folling tasting note:
Very good and long cork, maybe corked too long ago and lowering maybe the tasting (for the conditions of the transfer).
Soft turbidity that indicates that this is an unfiltered cider, natural, with fine bubble, maybe corked without the whole malolactic process done which gives a little bit of needle stressing the notes of mature fruits, both in scent as in taste, with a predominance of the table varieties.
This is a cider we considered to be very commercial, with a soft sweetness that may make it fit in the demi dry category, its price is adequate and in global terms is a cider with a medium-high score. The await for the bottle was eternal but it was truly worth it.
On Tuesday 2nd of February there was tasted also Czech and Slovak ciders awarded in the SISGA’14 through Alberto’s work, manager of La Finca Cider Mill in the middle of Gascona Boulevard, which offered the customers to taste and they enjoyed it very much to get some of the foreign ciders and being especially relevant the event through social networks.
Manuel Gutiérrez Busto
