Etienne Dupont Cidre De Givre Eis Cider

Brewed by Domaine Familial Louis Dupont
Style: Ice Cider/Perry
Victot-Pontfol, France

Serve in Flute, Stem glass

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Bottle 375ml.
Clear medium orange color with virtually none head. Aroma is apple, wood, rubber notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily - syrupy, carbonation is flat. [20090321]

UPDATED: APR 2, 2009 Vintage 2005 - sampled 2006. An orange cider with just hints of a head. The aroma is strong with notes fo apples and cinnamon, and the flavor is very sweet with notes of apples and cinnamon. Nice.

Vintage 2006 - sampled 2009. Amber with a whiff of head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of over ripe apples, alcohol, and caramel. The flavor is quite sweet with a light tart touch and strong notes of apples, leaning on being over ripe, leading to a dry finish. Thanks Steffen for this second go at it.

37.5 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with no head. Caramel and apple and light sulhporish aroma. Sweet apple distinct flavoured with a solid caramelish base note. Citric and apple fruity flavoured with a distinct citric and applefruity touch lasyting into the finish. Ends mild bitter. Stunning!!

(Bottle 37,5 cl) Vintage 2005. Clear, amber golden with a small, white head. Fresh, tart apple aroma. Very full-bodied with a high degree of sweetness - extremely sweet actually - and then an odd saline accent. Interesting but completely disharmonious. 011206

Bottle. Clear orange coloured with a white head. Aroma of almonds and apples. Very sweet flavour of almonds and apples.

Bottle from Au Verger de la Madeleine‎, Paris, 375ml, expensive (16€)
Vintage 2007, 2 years old, 7.2% ABV
It pours a dark amber color, hazy, flat. Aroma of apples, nuts, caramel. Strong body, even if less thick than other Ice Ciders, very sweet, with a distinctive late wood astringency and late acidity; flavor of overripe apples, caramel and some honey.
The caramel presence makes me think of a concentration obtained by boiling the cider, more than by freezing the apples; decent but not as fresh and fruity as the Canadian samples; nor it is as complex, but at least the astringency is original..

Bottle, 7%. Sweet apple aroma, also reminds me of liquorice powder... tyrkisk peber. Hazy amber colour. Brown powder sugar flavour. Quite sweet flavour, and not very appley. Good in small doses.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. No head. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich intense apples, notes of alcohol and finishes nice and sweet.

(Bottle, 2005 vintage) Pours a clear syrupy amber body that coats the glass providing plenty of legs and a few white bubbles. Aroma of baked apples and fresh organic apple cider. Flavor of sweet cooked apples with a thick syrupy (almost mead like) mouthfeel.

Murky caramelized apple colour. Sugary and really spicy. Soft, sweet, with some mapley notes, splashes of brown sugar and caramel. Not as rich as most of the Canadian examples I’ve had.