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June 2025

Welcome to Summer!

A few cool, cloudy days still prevail here and there, but the energy of summer has arrived on Salt Spring Island. We had a very busy May long weekend at the cidery, and now even mid-week there’s a noticeable hustle and bustle on the island and in our tasting room and lounge. As usual, the island is providing a perfect backdrop to all of this activity, with the fields and forests a rich green accented by the colour and fragrance of flowers in bloom. Soon fruits will begin forming on the trees,

We’ve got some great ciders to share with you this summer. delighted to share this season’s ciders with you as we head into springtime. Our Red Grapefruit Cider is back as our summer seasonal release. This one has become something of an institution for us, and it’s how we like to welcome the summer. It’s a simple yet delightful blend of apple cider with organic red grapefruit juice, and the crisp tart tang and balanced sweetness make it a perfect summer sipper. Speaking of summer, we’ve also got a super fun concoction we call Island Time, which blends apple cider with a pineapple and guava, as well as a hint of agave and rum. It’s got chilling at the beach written all over it.

There are also a couple of fantastic small batch, naturally-fermented ciders in this shipment. Last March you tasted the 2023 Wild Pear & Quince after it had aged and settled for about a year after fermenting. Now we have the 2024 harvest’s Wild Pear & Quince for you to enjoy. We’re loving the complexity the quince can add, including a fantastic floral nose and a honey sweetness that accents the residual sugars from the pears. This one has just finished fermenting and will probably continue to develop in flavour, but it’s already quite tasty and ready to enjoy!

There’s also a continuation of our experiments with grape and apple blends. This time we’ve added Concord grapes to our cider at about 5% by volume, and co-fermented on the skins. Like our previous batch of Apple Gamay, the grapes synergize with the apples to create some really unique flavours. The end result is hard to categorize and kind of falls in that same liminal space as rosés and orange wines. We’re getting hints of strawberry and honeydew melon, and there’s a nice bit of minerality that adds some complexity too.

Once again, we’re again inviting you to pick half of the ciders in your shipment. Just click on the button at the bottom of the page to go to our special Cider Club shop where you can make your selections for this shipment.

Best wishes for a bright and beautiful summer ahead! Thanks for your continued patronage. Cheers!

Featured Ciders

  • Apricot Saison

    Salt Spring Island apples were pressed and fermented on apricot puree using saison yeast. Very dry, with fruity notes from the apricot, and a subtle hint of spice from the yeast. Bottle conditioned to bring out the lively effervescence of traditional saisons. 6.7% ABV

  • Wild Pear & Quince

    Made with hand foraged Salt Spring Island wild seed pears, tannic cider pears, Asian pears, and quince. Cold fermented using native yeast, then bottle conditioned. Gently sweet due to the natural residual sugar from the pears. This is a juicy cider, with notes of melon, white pepper, and manuka honey.

    Originally a very cloudy cider, many of the solids have now settled out over the past year. If you’d like to relive its original cloudy juiciness, give it a good swirl and shake a few minutes before you open it. You might taste some almost rosy notes that have emerged from the quince if you do. Or, if you’d like something clearer, subtler, and a hint drier, leave the solids be in the bottom. 5.7% ABV

  • Rhubarb

    Made from organic apples, fresh rhubarb, and a little organic sugar to finish. This cider is gently tart and super tasty, with a balanced sweetness and not too sweet and tastes simply of rhubarb and apples. 6.4% ABV

  • Dry

    A wild fermented, full-bodied cider with light citrus notes and a clean, dry, tannic finish. This cider is made from over 30 varieties of entirely organic apples, including English Bittersweet varieties and heirloom varieties picked from historic Salt Spring orchards that were originally planted for hard cider production in the late 1800's. 6.7% ABV

  • Pear

    A true perry (no apples) with a champagne-like effervescence. fruity nose, and a delicate pear finish. Made with several varieties of wild-fermented Salt Spring and B.C. organic pears, including perry pears and heritage eating varieties. 7.4% ABV

  • Saskatoon Berry

    Bring back childhood memories with this cider: stained blue fingers, a nutty sweetness that fills the mouth, stopping at every roadside bush for a taste. Now that we're all grown up, we've blended local berries with even more local apples for a simple cider that teases your taste buds in the just the right way. Dry, earthy berries, simple and uncomplicated. 6.4% ABV

PICK YOUR SIX CIDERS!

All shipments will include the ciders listed above. You get to pick the rest.

Click the button below to visit our Cider Club store. Select six ciders from the choices there, and we’ll include them with your shipment.

If no selection is made by March 10th, we’ll pick them for you. (Don’t worry, they’ll be good ones!)

Shipments will be put in the mail by March 14th, or after your card on file is processed on its reoccurring subscription charge date if it normally falls after the 14th.