Raging Cider & Mead - West Coast Pommeau 2021 (375 mL)
Raging Cider & Mead - West Coast Pommeau 2021 (375 mL)
Raging Cider's West Coast Pommeau is made annually using fresh juice from the same blend of apple varieties: Hyslop crabapple & old cultivar honeyed Golden Delicious. Each year the apples express themselves differently. The fresh juice is blended with apple brandy and barrel aged for at least two years prior to bottling.
Raging uses a solera method for the apple brandy used in their pommeau, constantly adding a fresh vintage of brandy to the prior year's blend. This 2021 vintage uses brandy between 1 & 4 years old.
Rich on the palette with flavors that balance between caramel, spiced apple, honey, and leather. Semi-sweet, which is a touch drier than most pommeau. Bold & smooth, with nice warmign wood notes, a cutting edge of acidity, and wood driven tannins.
This is best enjoyed at room temp poured over a cube of ice as an aperitif, digestif, or as a decadent indulgence.
About Raging Cider & Mead Company: Head cider maker Dave Carr makes a range of excellent cider, perry, mead, wine, and coferments in partnership with his family at their San Diego based cidery. Their ciders are all made with locally sourced fruit and honey from San Diego County - very rare amongst cideries in the area, most of which primarily use juice brought in from near and far. Dave and his family forage apples and pears and help manage several orchards throughout San Diego County. The many mountains and canyons just east of San Diego on the way to Julian, California are an abundant source of interesting fruit. The unique growing conditions of these mountains often result in higher levels of acid as well as higher sugar content (and thus higher alcohol). Dave uses natural fermentation methods (wild fermentation via native yeast) on the fruit for all of his ciders. Between the cidermaking style and the unique qualities of the fruit, these small batch ciders are all one of a kind.
- Dry-to-Sweet Scale: Semi-Sweet
- Tannins: Medium
- Acidity: Medium Plus
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- Features: Still (Uncarbonated) and Barrel Aged
- ABV: 19.2%
- Format: 375 mL Bottle
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- In stock, ready to ship
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