Alpenfire Cider - Calypso, Barrel Aged w/ Blackberries (500 mL)
Alpenfire Cider - Calypso, Barrel Aged w/ Blackberries (500 mL)
Alpenfire Cider's Calypso is made from organic heirloom apples cofermented with blackberries, then aged three months in rum barrels. This cider drinks off-dry / semi-dry and is well balanced with a complementary blackberry flavor that doesn't overpower the apples. Notes of fresh apple juice and plum, fresh blackberry swettness and tartness, and brown-sugar and baking spice rum notes on a dry apple finish. This cider pairs well with salmon dishes, as well as creamy desserts like cheesecake.
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About Alpenfire Cider: Alpenfire was one of Washington State's first commercial cideries when they opened in 2006. For two decades since then, they've been very consistently releasing some of the finest craft ciders in North America. Alpenfire was also the first American cidery to obtain a certified organic designation. Their family's estate orchard in Port Townsend on the Olympic Penninsula includes around 1,000 English, French, and Heirloom apple trees. Operated by Bear and Nancy Bishop, and their son Phillipe - to the Bishop family organic is not an option but a necessity - a necessity that keeps them in touch with nature and helps to create the kind of future they want for their family and the planet.
Alpenfire is usually Erik's answer to the question "which cidery is your favorite?".
- Dry-to-Sweet Scale: Semi-Dry
- Tannins: Medium-Minus
- Acidity: Medium
- 🍎🍐 Varieties: Apple Variety Info Unavailable
- Features: Co-Ferment, Fruit Flavored, Barrel Aged, Organic, and Blackberries
- ABV: 6.9%
- Format: 500 mL Bottle
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