Cidrerie Michel Jodoin La Grande Tentation

Brewed by Cidrerie Michel Jodoin
Style: Cider
Rougemont, Canada

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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UPDATED: MAR 30, 2008 A nice dry cider. Great apple aroma right out of the bottle. Poured a crystal clear thin yellow with almost no head. The first sip is a little mouth-puckering, but after that the dryness grows on you nicely. Great apple flavor with almost none of the "off" flavors of some mass produced ciders. Worth a try if you can find it.

(33 cl, SAQ) La robe du liquide n’a pratiquement aucune couleur. Le nez est bien frais et offre des parfums de pommes et des effluves de vin blanc qui sont sans prétention. Le goût des fruits est vivant, porté par une belle effervescence, touché peut-être par d’autres fruits. La finale est douce et acidulée : une belle façon d’aborder le repas du soir.

Tap at Paradiso Dupont. Pours clear white wine color with sparkling carbonation. Almost a perry like SRM. Very light yellow. Paler than straw. Nose is quite muted...some white wine acidity and mild ash/burning plastic character found in some white wines and champagnes. Taste is prickly, tart, pretty dry with high effervescence. Palate is lactic and phlegmy. Fairly dry and vinous. Small white wine vinegar and moderate saltiness. Gives this some character but still more like white wine than cider.

Sour, sour cider. Green apple aroma/flavour. Very pale yellow. Fairly sweet, a little syrupy.

Very pale straw yellow pour. The aroma is tart and a little bit fruity. There’s lots of fresh malice tartness and a nice apple skin character. Green apple, a bit of lemon and some nice, crisp dryness. Tasty and refreshing.

Great tart aroma of apples, and some floral honey notes. Flavor is very tart, and refreshing. A great sparkling cider, wonderful for a summer onthe golf course.

355ml bottle from my cider provider: HogTownHarry; Nose of tart green apples with only the tiniest hint of sweetness; pale gold with virtually no head, only a few bubbles which ring the glass; flavor is tart apples with only a tiny hint of sweetness in the finish.

Quite surprised to see this one rates so low. Very pale, pretty subtle aroma but what’s there is pretty nice. Lovely balance of light sweetness and clean acid. Appley without being too obvious. Nothing weird and very fresh-tasting. Real nice, lacking only in intensity.

Pours a crystal clear, light straw color. Minimal, cascading carbonation pools into a lightly fizzy surface. Looks thin in the glass. The nose is mundane, showing like seltzer water sweetened with apple juice and perhaps a drop of lemon. The flavor, too, fell short. Sugary sparkling water with faint sour apples and a touch of citrus is all that really comes through. The 6.4% is well hidden, but it feels like a sugary coverup more than anything else. Lightly syrupy body, with light carbonation. Clean, dry finish. Bland. This just doesn’t cut it for me on any level.

Bottle from a SAQ in Montreal. Clear light golden colour with mellow carbonation. Nice aroma of tart, fresh apples and a very slight woodiness. Crisp body. Dry, tart apple flavour, with a hint of sharp cheese. A pleasant dry cider that went well with a roast chicken dinner.

Bottle. Pours a bubbly clear pale yellow with no head. Aroma of apples yes, but also old sharp cheddar and some white wine -- I found it just O.K. Flavour also has that old sharp cheese element to it along with tart apples, some wood and white wine. Dry finish. Light bodied, plenty carbonated. Maybe it was the mood I was in but I like I wrote earlier, I found this just O.K.