Hubs and I actually have Thanksgiving weekend off together (which almost never happens) and we decided we wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather. We started the day off with a visit to the Buchart Gardens (Another separate post to come on this later). We first visited the Gardens when my mom and sister were here. Not sure why we waited so long to get there, its absolutely gorgeous and well worth the money to visit (Those of you who live local will find a 12 month pass is much more economic)
Afterwards, Hubs suggested that we pick up a bottle of cider from the local Sea Cider Farm. When we arrived, we found out they did tastings (short or long row) and decided to do a long row tasting, consisting of 8 ciders and one of their cider cocktails. We also shared a Ploughman's lunch which consisted of fresh local bread, crackers. 2 types of cheeses, 3 types of meat, a chutney, a salmon spread and lavender shortbread. It was soo delicious, and the first time either of us had done a wine tasting.
We ended up picking the Rumrunner cider to bring home with us. The Rumrunner is 12% abv and runs $17 for a 750ml bottle. The description on their website for the cider is
"Rumrunner is crafted with home-grown heritage apples including Winter Bananas and Winesaps. The apples were hand pressed using our traditional rack and cloth press, slowly fermented with Champagne yeast then aged in rum barrels. Notes of brown sugar and spice give complexity to this semi-dry sparkling cider".
There were a couple others we would like to go back and pick up (the pommeau and the pippins).
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