Christian Drouin Comte Louis de Lauriston Brut Cidre

Brewed by Christian Drouin
Style: Cider
Rouen, France

Serve in Bowl, Flute, Lager glass

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Gylden uklar skum ingen Æbler blomst Bitter lidt sød moderat Tør livlig @Loge 19/2-13

Bottle @ The 4th Annual Fastelavns-Smagning Ulfborg, 2013. Pours clear golden with bubbles on top. Barnyard, red apples and mild funk. Very dry. Tasty.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Clear golden with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, apples and wood. Flavor is medium sweet and light acidic. Dry and light acidic finish. 160213

Bottle. Clear yellow with tiny white head. Aroma is apple, fruit and sulfur. Flavour is apples, dry, wood, barnyard, little acid and a little tart.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Small head with short duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are sweet apples, citrus, sulphur and has a nice full body. Love good ciders from Normandy.

Pale yellow, almost golden body that is clear and looks rather lively carbonated. Moderate to strong aroma with lots of lovely fermented apples, oak and barnyard notes. Light sweet and light sour taste with a moderate dry finish. Strong flavours, again with fermented apples and oak but also lots of horse blanket. I thought that "horse blanket" was a typical characteristic of a wild ale, but this one is definitely horsey to me. Maybe a bit too much. Or maybe it’s the horse sweat that makes this stand out from the crowd?
[75 cl bottle shared with my wife, from Vinmonopolet Storo, Oslo]

"Elaborated in Normandy" **chuckles** $10 bottle from New Beer. Ommegang anniversary glass. Clear, golden, light maple color. Very spritzy. Smells of honey-sweet apples, grass, soggy oak, & a slight touch of pickling. Nice blend of bitter & sweet, leaning sweeter. Lots of wood notes & grassy bitterness. Not all that apple-y. Light to moderate acidity, low tartness. Alcohol isn’t completely in check. Quite carbonated & minerally. Very dry, grain & vanilla finish.

Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is oak, apple, apple core. flavour is dry, oak, apple, apple core, acidic. OK Cider.

Pours a deep golden (very deep for a cider) with lots of effervescent champagne like bubbles. The cider also heads up huge and the head virtually disappears in seconds the way that Champagne does.

The aroma is crisp and apple-y with some light mineral character, some white grape, and a nice soft floral note.

The flavor starts fruity with a touch of sweetness but turns dry in quite a hurry. Some mineral flavors are present throughout, when at cellar temp there is a sulfur note mid palate but this fades as it warms even a bit. The apple flavor is lovely, certainly more of a red apple flavor and really the flavor of apple rind is as prevalent if not more so than the the flavor of the apple flesh. The cider finishes dry and fairly clean. Overall the tartness level on the cider is low to moderate and this is perhaps as similar to a dry sparkling wine as I’ve ever tasted in a cider with a bubbly mouthfeel to match. Very good.

750 ml bottle. Golden body with a thin white head that fades quickly. Mild, and acidic apple aroma with some wood. Flavor is dry apple, moderate acidity, and distinct wood. Aftertaste has more obvious apple flavor. Not great, but nice and quite fascinating.