Cidrerie Michel Jodoin Rubis de Glace

Pours copper and still. Smells of sweet aple pie apples, some honey, some hints of grape. Tastes sweet and spicy with a nice appley finish. I wish I had better descriptors for these gems as I enjoy them quite a bit.

Bottle. Pours a light amber red body with no carbonation. Apples honey sweet. Apple skins, lightly salty and chewy apple caramel. A bit vinous. This is great!

Pours a lovely orange red with some extremely fine carbonation that lines the bottom of the glass. This is not a carbonated cider, though, nor does it taste it. The strength of this cider is no doubt in its absolutely wonderful tartness: that aspect of the flavor is so dead on that it is hard not to love this drink. However, there is not too much else going on. There is a lack of complexity, and a lack of oomph, and the finish is actually quite short and doesn’t leave a never-ending sweetness on the tongue like some of the best ice ciders. It’s almost wheaty in the finish, and it is a bit watery as well. However, the tart in this from the Geneva apples is simply so wonderful that I can’t give this any lower than a 4.

Poured a gorgeous hazy red, with some strong orange notes. Aroma is very acidic, green apple like. There are some tantalizing spice notes as well. The flavor is so unique, with a bracing acidity that is razor sharp, cutting the sweetness nicely. Very good cider...

Relabeled as "Cidre de glace rose." Poured a perfectly clear red-orange with no head. The aroma was full of apples and sweetness. Since this was my first Ice cider I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect, but it was great. Flavor was full of sweet and sour apples, one of my favorite flavors in general, and the cider didn’t disappoint. The finish was very dry and prickly and even more tart. I definitely need to take a trip to Quebec to get more of this, and I may even have to give Geneva apples a try. This is certainly the "Michael Jordan" of ciders, as far as I can tell.

Relabeled as "Cidre de glace rose." A brilliant red-orange color with no head to speak of. Has some decent legs to it. Aroma of caramel apples along with a fair bit of tartness as well. Taste is beautiful: starts off very sweet, but then dries up in a flash. Dryness melds into sourness, leaving the tongue feeling a bit prickly. When on the tongue, this cider feels almost weightless, like it’s just sort of floating there. Haven’t experienced that before. Finishes bone dry and sour. It practically sucks all the moisture out of my mouth; it even makes my tongue stick out! This is some kind of good, let me tell you. I must get another bottle.

Chestnut colour with a small off white head. Apple fruity aroma with dark berry fruity notes and a vague alcohol hint. Sweet fruity flavor with notes of apple and dark berries. Light dry and sweet finish.

375 mL bottle, thanks to Ungstrup. Pours golden red with a lacing white head. Aroma is berry sweet and slight citric, slight alcohol aroma. Quite apple citric sour. Finish is quite nicely citric levelled off with a slight sweet note. Wow. Great finish.