Cortina Sidra Natural

Brewed by Lagar Sidra Cortina
Style: Cider
Amandi, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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Appearance
Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 4   Pale(1)->Dark(5) : 1   Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 1
Aroma
Intensity : 2  
Yeast : 3   Bread : 2   Hay: XX   Brett : XX   Floral: 2   Wood: 2   Leather: XX   Barnyard : XX   Medicine : XX   Phenols: XX   Cheese : XX   Vinous: 2  
Notes: Caramel : XX   Honey : XX   Applesauce: 2   Appleskin : XX Pear : XX   Tropical FruitsXX  
Flavor
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3 Juicy: XX   Sourness : 3   Bitterness: XX   Farmy : XX   Complex: XX   Length : XX
Palate
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2 Chewy: XX   Sharp: 2   Chalk : XX   Astringence : 2   Tea tannins : XX   Alcohol : XX
Comments: A straight to the point sidra with less character than most, but well defined sourness and yeastiness.

Problem with this is that many people don’t know how to drink it. First you need to hold the bottle over your head and then pour it into a wide glass that has to be almost at your knees. You pour a small quantity and drink it all at once. Do that process and THEN rate it. I think it’s a extraordinary cider, tipycal Asturian cider, much more sour than the sweet English cider (in my opinion, inferior to the Asturian cider). Again please, I’d ask everyone to do the right process before drinking it. If you just pour half the bottle into a glass and drink it it will probably be awful. I’d also recommend everyone to visit Asturias in northern Spain to try this kind of (very different) cider and the "escanciado" (pouring) process that it involves.

Bottle from Alcampo. Hazy pale yellow coloured. Nose is dry, leather and a bit musty. Quite pleasant. Flavour is soft with fairly sweet and slightly sour apples. Taste is a bit weak. Watery finish.

No beer, no f+uckin rate to this apple juice made in celtics. My absolute respect, admiration and friendship to cetics and cider lvers, but this is a page for BEER!

Bottle 70cl. @ The Danish Summer Gathering Tasting, TSODRBSG09.
Light unclear light to medium yellow color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate apple, sour apple, rubber, acidic apple. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a average duration, a dry dry finish. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090822]

Bottle, courtesy of faroeviking. A hazy, yellow-golden drink, completely flat. Ripe sour apples and apple cores in the aroma, quite pleasant. The flavor is on a different level, a lower level unfortunately, introdusing a papery touch along with the apples. A lemony acidic touch also blends in. Astringent and very dry. Really acidic finish with lots of apple flavor. Pity about the papery touch, else it’s a quite decent one. 090822

Botella bought in Madrid. Cloudy deep yellow. Sour apple pleasant aroma. The flavour has lots of apples and sourness with some sweetness. Sour apple sweetish well lasting finish.

Bottle 70 cl. Courtesy of faroeviking. Hazy yellow with no head. Astringent, leathery Brett aroma. Medium body, fairly sour apple notes with lots of astringent Brett and leather. A very authentic country cider. 220809

Bottle. Hazy yellow with no head. Brett like acidic aroma with notes of sour apples. Very dry sour apples in flavour. Medium body. Ends up very dry and citric. Lovely.

Bottle @ Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 09. Pours hazy yellow with no head. Tart, spritzy, strong and sweet. A bit of apple and wood. Dry end.

Cloudy pale yellow with no head. Aroma of apple and a little plastic. Tart apple flavour with wooden notes. Quite refreshing