Etienne Dupont Organic Cidre Bouché Brut de Normandie
Certified Organic by IMO Switzerland. All apples of the type Bisquiet are fully Organic.
3.7
159 reviews
Victot-Pontfol, France
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Pours light yellow with a fading white head. Aroma of sweet and tart apples. Flavor is sweet, light tart apples. Thin body, lively carbonation. 271214
Bottle. Dark yellow cider. Powerfull apple aroma. Semi sweet/dry cider. Average apple flavor. Average apple finish. oily palate.
Bottle vintage 2011, 4.5%. Clear golden with tiny white head. Aroma is apple, fruit, apple peel and a little sulfur. Flavour is apples, fruit, little dry, medium sweet, little apple peel and a little oak.
Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Clear golden without head. Aroma is sweet, apples and tart. Flavor is medium sweet and light acidic. Dry and light acidic finish. 271214
75 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow, no head. Aroma is dry apples, light sulphorish. Smooth fruity, juicy, vague butterish. Light vanilla. Smooth and crisp apples. Smooth fruity finish.
Bottle @ Højbjerg juletasting. No head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are rich apples, sulphur, fruits and has a nice dry fruity finish.
2012 Bottle direct from the cidery. Pours golden and highly sparkling. The taste is sharp green apple with a little funk and a clean crisp finish and champagne like fizz. Pretty dry. This feels like drinking a cross between cider and cava. It’s nice enough, but not entirely my cup of tea.
Bottle shared with Justin. Aroma of fresh tart apples and slight perfume. If you get in close, the aroma shoots run up the sinus. Cork popped across the room and the bottle gushed something proper so be warned. Big huge champagne bubbly head and a solid carbonation once it dissipates. Taste is green apple, tart citrus, floral, champagne, and a funky yeast. Mouthfeel is dry brut champagne with no real lingering bite. Very pleasant and unique.
The year on the bottle is 2011
Pours a nice pale straw color with a huge rise and fall head and so many tiny bubbles rising up in the glass.
The cider is very aromatic, floral & earthy with a lot of wet limestone and some nice tart apple. There is some mild barnyard funk to it, but it’s sort of lingering in the background.
The flavor is largely dry with just a touch of apple sweetness up front. It’s got a nice minerally character and a really good tartness throughout. There is a touch of spice and a nice bit of leather. The apple skin bitterness is low but well employed here. The acidity is both bright and well balanced & never becoming too dominant.
The palate is both light and prickly & as such very well suited to the flavor of the cider.
A very enjoyable cider on all accounts.
Bottle. Hazy light gold with active carbonation and no head. Aroma is plastic and earthy funk. Taste is sour apple with a weird bacon and bandaid finish. Crisp dry palate. Pretty weird.
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Bottle. Very hazy umber-hued, low carbonation. Aroma is very complex: funky and cheesy and appley. Equally complex palate of sweet apple pie, vanilla, spice, cobwebby spaces, light cheese rind, raw dough, wet clay, leather. Holy smokes this is an incredible drinking experience!
Bottle at Andy’s for New Years. Faintly hazed straw gold thin white head. Big and dirty, funky, cheesy. Big contrast, sweet ahs full of apples. Long sweet apples and caramel. Tasty.
2011. Nose is leather, funk, apples, tart skins, rubber, acetone, blue cheese. Flavor is stilton washed down with applejuice, yeast, funks, basements, slight rubber. Pretty nice. Not as dry as I recall the regular version being for some reason.
2008 vintage. Pours clear dark golden color with fizzy white head. Musty apple aroma. Sweet and slightly tart apple flavor with some mustiness. Light body with lively carbonation. Excellent.
Bottle. 2011 vintage. Pale golden body with a fizzy white head. Aroma of tart apple, leather, lacquer, barnyard, peaches, musty basement. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet and moderately acidic. It finishes moderately sweet and moderately acidic. Medium body, watery/sticky texture, lively carbonation. Great balance of apple and funkiness. Taste of apple, then leather, then peach, then barnyard finished with a dry tartness. Complex and refined.
2010 bottle shared at Levi’s. Ugly, farty apple factory aroma. Taste makes up for it. Slightly hazy yellow-orange body. Not much of a head. Doesn’t taste like it aged well.
375ml bottle, 2009 vintage squarely indicated on the front label. 10912 is the code on the bottom front of the label, FWIW. pours a golden orange with a super retentive head. there is apple in the aroma, but it is enrobed by notes of bleu cheese, must, leather, and fresh carpet. it hits the palate equally with applesauce, smoke, and basement flavors. the taste is probably the most complex i’ve experienced in a cider. the lingering flavor is concentrated apple with a hint of campfire, which is suprisingly tame for something produced with such wild methods. this really represents the apex of cidermaking, at least until someone develops a new layered experience. drinking this makes me want to seek it out at the source, learn from its maker, and eat a meal in Victot-Pontfol paired with this exquisite beverage. The best I’ve had to date.. thanks Sean!
Pours a medium to light gold color with a finger of white fizzy foam. The nose is ripe tannic apples, dusty fieldgrass, touch of cured meat and stone. The palate follows with a touch of sweet baked apple on the front end... from there some warm spice rolls in with cured meat and a bit of funky must.
On tap at Teresa’s yesterday. Poured hazy golden. Not much lace or head to note. Smell/flavor are Liquid apple tart with some notes of cinnamon stick, crust, and ripe apples. Very clean and easy drinking 4.5% cider with an awesome yeast presence. Excellent!
Thanks Harold, for sharing. Nose is big apples, earthy notes, light tart notes, pear. Pour is golden. Palate is medium. Taste is sweet apples with a drier finish. Champagne like, with a light farmhouse quality, slightly earthy. Fresh green apple taste. Nice stuff.
2008 bottle shared with the ol’ OmegaX. This cider was awesome; with an aroma of blue cheese, honey, apples and a leafy earthiness as well. It tasted plentiful of sweet cider with a tart, almost acidic finish. As it warmed up it became an apple tart with a splash of caramel and even more lambic-acidity. Very well done, and looking for more vintages now.
A lightly hazed blonde cider with fine bubbling, no head. In aroma, super complex mix of apple pulp, Brett, foliage, and lactic notes. In mouth, superb cider, where apple pulp meets fresh cheese, burning leaves, light peaty character, very nice. On tap at Farmhouse Vermont.
On tap at Meridian Pint’s DC Beer Week Cider Event. Pours a clear, straw, honey gold with one ring of white head. Nose has a ton of funk, lots of cheese, like brie baked with honey, very horsey too, some grass. Flavor follows on, very wild, sweet, honey, apples, grass, super cheesy, yogurt, a little almond. Sweet and cheesy finish. This is like a cider, mead and gueze had a threesome.
75cl bottle from madeincalvados.com. 2010 vintage. Cloudy golden appearance with thin head. Balanced taste. Aroma is sweet green and white.
750 ml bottle to pint (2011 vintage; shared with the Mrs.). Looks good; a transparent apple juice with lively carbonation and white head that dissipates quickly and entirely. Smells and tastes solid; like a good cider. Nice and lively on the palate. A good cider.
Bottle, bought @ Under Kælderen. Pours clear dark golden with a large, fizzy white head that settles. Aroma has apples, light zest, fruity, mild citrus. Highish carbonation, fine dry and light mouthfeel. Flavour has apples, soft sulphur, light zesty. Good dryness to the finish, softly puckering.
Wow, at first I was really disappointed in the overly phenolic, almost band-aidy character in this. I discovered pouring the dregs in the glass helped to mute the harsh (almost smoked meat) funkiness a bit. Sweet apple aroma is covered by brett funk with a spicy edge. Taste is sweet cider up front, then goes medicinal, hinting at smoky band-aides. I thought it was fairly drinkable with the yeast mixed up, but still very funky. The closest thing I have had to this was the Brownslane from Crispin, but this is more funky. Weird to me, but maybe this is traditional?
Bottle from Mane Liquor. Pours a golden straw colour with a lively and quickly dissipating tall head. Barnyard funk, touch of smoky meat and acidic spritziness on the nose. Taste is a little more refined, more apple flesh rather than skin present, with an acidic champagne flavour. Surprisingly refreshing, great balance between sweet and dry. Very carbonated. Had it with a pork dish, went down a treat.
Bottle shared by rschnake...thanks Rob! - Pours light amber with a ring of bubbly white head. Nose is tons of band-aid initially, with light sweet apple, lots of apple skin and dryness. Taste has less band-aid. Real dry and crisp apples. Still has a little sweetness, with more skin and flesh with a little brett plasticyness. Thin, slick and well-carbonated.