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Tasting ice ciders blind (Part 2)

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Clos Saragnat: our winner!

St. Ignatius of Ice and Eden Épouffètes Honey Crisp: rarities!

At last the results of our tasting.

cider ice Leduc-Piedimonte has conquered the jury

For your understanding, each participant had to evaluate ciders according to four criteria: aroma (10), equilibrium (10), complexity (10) and the general assessment (on 20). Here, the classification of ciders tasted:

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Top	Cider		Aroma Balance (alcohol, sugar, acidity)	Complexity	General Appreciation	Total Number of	top 3
1	Saragnat Avalanche 2008		8 9 9		18	42.9	8
2	St-Nicolas Ice Cider		8 8 8		17	40.8	7
3	Leduc-Piedimonte ice cider		7 7 8		16	38.0	3
4	Petit et Fils Frisson		6 7 7		16	37.5	4
5	Antolino Brongo Cryomalus		7 8 7		16	37, 4	2
6	Pinnacle Special Reserve		7 7 8		16	37.2	4
7	Dark Side of the Apple First Snow		7 7 7		16	37.2
8	Antolino Brongo Cryomalus Passerillé		7 8 7		15	37.1	3
9	Dark Side of the Apple Snow Reserve 2008		7 8 7		15	36.9	2
10	Clos St. Ignatius of Ice Épouffètes		7 7 7		15	35.2
11	Lafrance Cuvee Speciale 2006		7 7 7		14	34.6	2
12	Philion Friga		6 7 6		15	34.5	2
13	Dark Side of the Apple Harvest Winter 2008		6 7 6			34.2 15 0
14	Dark Side of the Apple Vintage Inspiration 2003		6 6 7		14	34.1	3
15	Pinnacle Ice Cider		7 7 7		14	34.0	1
16	Lafrance Ice Cider		6 7		7 14 33.8		2
	17 Apple St. Lawrence Ice Cider		7 6 7		14	33.5	1
18	Clos St-Denis Pomme de Glace		6 7 6			33.3 14 0
19	Du Minot Cremant de Glace		6 8 5			33.0 14 0
20	Honey Crisp Eden (Vermont)		6 6 6		14	32.3	2
21	Val Caudalies Reserve Aeolus 2007		6 6 6			32.0 13 0
22	Eden Vermont Ice Cider		6 7 6			31.7 13 0
23	From the Hill Cuvée Precious		6 6 6		13	30, 5	2
24	Leduc-Piedimonte Private Reserve 2004		5 5 6			27.9 11 0
25	Michel Jodoin Ice Cider		5 5 6		12	36.7
26	Frost Lacroix St-Joseph		5 6 5		11	26.4	0
27	Pinnacle Sparkling Ice Cider	5		5 5 11		25.3	1
28	Clos St. Denis Fine Pomme de Glace		4 4 4		9	20.6

Performance interesting and nice complexity to the eldest of the tasting

The cryoextraction by Pinnacle: more than respectable ranking

Conclusion: In conclusion, we can not prevent us from be surprised by the results. In the blind, prejudice no longer important, but ultimately, these biases make us still surprised by the poor performance of some favorites and some remarkable positions neglected. To recover the whole, it is obviously clear that the results do not represent a guarantee of quality or mediocrity. They simply represent the image of the opinions of diners at a specific day. The alcohol in the blood, the interpretation of oxidative flavors due to the advanced age of some bottles, the saturation of papillae, allergies to animals, peer pressure, food consumed at the event ... all these factors and many others have undoubtedly had an impact on results. We have nevertheless tried to control the main potential biases by standardizing glasses, rinsing systematic a constant supply of bread and water to preserve the state of the papillae. Thus, our list is far from perfect, but still represents what we have found better tasting as independent compilation of ice cider.

St-Nicolas, probably the big surprise of the day. Excellent value for money

We expected more from the excellent brightness DomaineLafrance

The refined Cremant de Glace du Minot: very fresh, but less rich than its rivals

At this point, it would be really interesting to see some of our readers take the ball to bounce and organize their own ice cider tasting blind. We would be happy to compile and publish the results to develop a database of more significant. So dixit Gaston Lepage, are you ready for the challenge?