Another something new for dinner tonight, a French apple cider. To be precise it was a 2009 Etienne Dupont Cidre Bouche Brut de Normandie, an unpasteurized and unfiltered cider from Normandy.
Golden color in the glass and a tremendous nose of rich apples, yeast and bread dough. Tart and full flavored there was a great balance between intense apple flavor component of freshly baked bread. Lots of flavor and a long finish that ended sweet but dry.
Dinner was a grilled pork chop and we stuck some apple wood chips on the coals for a smoky flavor, and basted the chop as it grilled with cider vinegar and oil. Nice combination and very complimentary flavors.
5.5% alcohol, 375ml and $7.
4 comments:
Dan,
I think I tried a similar (bigger bottle, same producer, but also with the word organic on the label) cider a few months ago. As you say quite delicious, mushrooms as much as apple I though.
interesting on the mushrooms. My usual practice is to put a glass aside until after dinner to compare it to what it was like when it was first opened. Since this was a 375ml and there were two of us drinking it there was none left for 'later.'
I did buy two bottles and I'll stick a post-it-note on the second one to look for mushrooms when I open it.
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