Portugal Business News - The New York Times recommends a list of the best ciders in the world for Thanksgiving and Portuguese cider Nua Roots Cider No. 2 Portugal 2021 tops the list as the best cider in the world for the festive season.
While wine is the usual drink for Thanksgiving, cider is a wonderful choice, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic. Since nobody comes to Thanksgiving to train their critical faculties on how wine pairs with each course, but rather to see family and friends, ciders are a wonderful option since they are lower in alcohol than almost all wines and would go great with a Thanksgiving meal. Since ciders feel seasonal, they are a wonderful addition for the festive season.
Here is the list of the best ciders in the world according to The New York Times:
1 – Portuguese cider Nua Roots Cider No. 2 Portugal 2021:
The best cider in the world for the festive season is Nua Roots Cider No. 2 Portugal 2021, according to The New York Times. With 7.5 percent volume, the bottle of 750 milliliters costs $19.
This lightly carbonated natural cider, hazy gold, with discernible sediment, is made of many different Portuguese apple species. It’s delicious and refreshing, bone dry, savory and saline. (Louis/Dressner Selections, New York)
Portuguese cider Nua Roots Cider No. 2 is made with 100% Portuguese apples with Heirloom Varieties from Minho, Northwest Portugal, and is 100% natural.
2 – Californian cider Sur la Mer Brut Cider Mendocino County NV
The second-best cider in the world for the festive season is Sur la Mer Brut Cider Mendocino County NV. With 7.5 percent volume, the bottle of 500 milliliters costs $20.
Sur la Mer is made by Drew Family Cellars, which makes wine on the Mendocino Coast. Their home vineyard was planted on an old, abandoned orchard, and the family restored part of that orchard. It’s just three miles from the ocean, hence the French phrase Sur la Mer for on the sea. It’s fruity, pure and elegant, less austere than some of the others on this list.
3 – Californian cider Horse & Plow Farmhouse Cider Sonoma County NV
Californian cider Horse & Plow Farmhouse Cider Sonoma County NV is ranked third best cider in the world by The New York Times. With 8 percent volume, the bottle of 750 milliliters costs $20.
Horse & Plow in Sebastopol makes wines and ciders from Northern California. The Farmhouse Cider is a blend of multiple apples from the region. It’s fresh, tart and floral, with dry, earthy flavors. Horse & Plow also makes an excellent Gravenstein cider, made entirely from Gravenstein apples that have become rarer in Northern California as orchards have ceded land to vineyards.
4 – New York cider Aaron Burr Cidery
New York Cider: Aaron Burr Cidery Sullivan County Homestead Locational Cider New York 2021 is ranked 4th best cider. With 7.4 percent volume, the bottle of 500 milliliters costs $24.
Aaron Burr Cidery makes brilliant ciders with apples from old, abandoned apple orchards that are found in the woods and on hillsides in upstate New York. These “locational” ciders confirm the sense of place conveyed by these ciders, since Sullivan County is earthy and herbal with pure apple flavors.
5 – New York cider Eve’s Cidery Sparkling Perry
Eve’s Cidery Sparkling Perry New York 2022 is ranked 5th best cider. With 8 percent volume, the 750 milliliters bottle costs $25.
Perry is cider made of pears, and this one, from the excellent Eve’s Cidery, is superb. It’s made entirely, Eve’s says, from pears foraged from its home region south of the Finger Lakes. The cider is dry with a lovely, savory pear flavor. If you can find this, lay in a few bottles, because guests will want more.
6 – New York Sundström Cider Liminal Cider
Sundström Cider Liminal Cider New York NV is ranked 6th best cider. With 8.5 percent volume, the bottle of 750 milliliters costs $25.
Leif Sundström makes ciders from multiple regions of New York State. This Liminal, mostly from the Finger Lakes area and from the 2021 and 2022 harvests, is primarily golden russet blended with Newtown Pippin and Geneva Tremlett’s, an old cider variety. Liminal has a funky, almost cheesy flavor blended with fresh apples.
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