Bellewether Hard Ciders on Cayuga Lake was a break from our day of wine touring. Both the wife and I enjoy hard ciders. We started drinking cider together when we discovered a little cider place from PA. Although we quickly learned, like NY, most states treat cider more like wine then beer. With an alcoholic content between 5 & 6 percent, I view it more like beer, and wish it came more in six packs instead of 750 ml bottles.
But enough complaining about alcohol regulation and on to the cider, I generally prefer my ciders dry like I enjoy my wine. However after tasting every cider on their available tasting menu, my wife and I ended up buying Bellewether’s Liberty Spy along with another cider I’ll review when it gets opened.
Liberty Spy is actually a semi-sweet cider made from the popular Spy apple. So on a recent hot day when we were looking for something refreshing, out came this cider from the bottom of our fridge. It was just what the doctor ordered. With a little apple nose, it encourage big gulps. The flavor of good spy apple followed by mineral and acid mixed well with the small sparkling effervescence of the cider.
It is refreshing break for those hot summer days, when red wine just doesn’t work and you’re on strike from the pink stuff. Do my fellow wine drinkers also dabble in the enjoyment of Hard Ciders, or am I the odd man out?
