Val de Rance Cidre Bouché

From the Côtes d'Armor region of France. Deep amber colour with a heady old apple bouquet. Taste is intense old apple, semi-sweet balanced with a light astringency. 4% ABV. My rating 9/10. I usually like drier ciders but this one is one of the best quaffers I have tried!

Loch Mór - The Danforth Rd Blend

Another excellent cider from Loch Nor. This one has a medium white wine colour and an intense dark apple bouquet. Taste is a strong old apple with light tannins like a French cider. 6.4% ABV. My rating 8.5/10.

Waupoos Premium

From Waupoos Cider Company of Waupoos, Ontario comes this full-flavour cider. It has light white-wine colour and a fresh apple bouquet. Taste is a medium fresh apple. 6.5% ABV. My rating 7.5.

 

Eric Bordelet Sidre Brut Tendre

From Normandy, this sparkling cider was created, according to the cider maker, as "a compromise between the raw and the tender." It is medium-dark amber colour with an intense apple bouquet that is a mixture of fresh an old apple. Taste is semi-sweet (but not too sweet) with an intense old apple taste. 6% ABV. My rating 8/10.

 

401 Brewery

From Northumberland County, Ontario comes this premium (according to them) cider. Very pale yellow colour with a slightly astringent tart apple bouquet. Taste is initially tart with light apple flavour. Finishes lightly astringent with a lingering light apple. 5.5% ABV. My rating 6.10.

Hopping Cider

From Pelee Island Winery. Made with 100% apple juice.

Pommies Dry Farmhouse

Another Pommies cider though drier than the original. Pale yellow colour with a fresh apple bouquet. It has a fresh apple taste that is originally semi-dry then finishes drier. 6% ABV. My rating 8/10.