UPDATED: MAY 18, 2021 This is a backlog rating from 2008 from a bottle picked up in Michigan, from notes. When I had this beer it was average to below average for the style and not something I wanted to have again or I just didn't get back to my notes because of my technology at the time, work and/or family. Words to describe this beer are sweet malts, apples, apple juice with sugar added, warming but not boozy, without question this exceeds anything else that mentions the word cider.

UPDATED: DEC 26, 2020 375ml (thx, Jonathan D.!) @ home. Labeled as 'Domaine Neige'. 12% ABV. Appearance: clear pale copper. Aroma: sweet red apples with sour notes, very bold. Taste: very sweet and sour red apples, apple pie, a bit spicy. Overall: nice one.

UPDATED: AUG 28, 2020 0,375 litre Bottle at home. Golden with no head. Apple, Caramel, sweetness, tart. Nice!

UPDATED: JUN 1, 2019 Shared bottle with wife at weekend to remember 5/31/19 at the marriot downtown indianapolis. Loves those fireworks from the hotel floor! Light honey whiskey color. Aromas apple pie, alcohol, slight barrel age, slight cinnomon. A complex ice cider. Interesting coming from just apples! Flavors apple pie, alcohol, wood, slight whiskey essense but not so much an impression. Smooth highly sweet and just darn delicious and different from any other wine. Much different from cider.

UPDATED: DEC 17, 2018 D'un superbe doré lumineux où de belle jambes sont visibles sur la paroi. Un nez de pommes mûres, de compote de pomme et de poires en conserve. Des saveurs fruitées plus que par la pomme et acidulées, accompagnées d'une belle amertume. C'est presque poivré, c'est sucré et ça goûte les fruits, en l'occurence la pomme et la poires, cuisinés. (Version 2016) (2696-081218)

Taster, thank you so much SinH. Nose is lots of candy apple, peach, pear, smells heavenly. Palate is the most intense apple and pear I have ever tasted. Sweet finish. what an unbelievably tasty treat.

Pours deep clear gold into a snifter. No head. Mackintosh apple juice aromas. Thick with hot sweet apple pie, cinnamon and dry biscuit. Strange and lovely.

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Bottle, r�colte 2009, 13 abv. Pours clear orange topaz, with no head. Aroma is earthy notes of sweet apple peel, apple flowers and fruit candy, as well as mushroomy minerals. Creamy body, with no carbonation. Flavour is sweet fruity notes, with apples, sugar, notes of berries and floral earthy notes.

375 ml bottle. A few years old. Shared at the Expedition Stout Tasting. The cider is a clear gold. Still. The aroma has rich apple pie sweetness with spices and apple skins. Sweet. Slick mouthfeel. Great to sip on.

UPDATED: JAN 12, 2018 500ml bottle at the January DC Ratebeer tasting. Poured a kind of dark, very clear apple juice color. Totally still. Aroma was a blast dry, sweet, boozy apple skins. Smooth apple notes. Some brandy. Apple skin. Smooth, hot, but pleasant as it's consumed. Really nice, smooth character.