Belliveau Orchards Massé, New Brunswick

To honour B and C's anniversary and the coming of fall, today I am pleased to bring you a review of an apple wine they brought back with them from a recent trip to New Brunswick. As you know, B and C aren't huge wine drinkers and fruit wines are a great step in between juice and wine for those who don't love grape wines. This wine was a delicious alternative to grape wines, so if you like cider, check out your local orchards. This one is from New Brunswick, but Ontario orchards make them too (for example, Archibald's Winery in Bowmanville ships their wines across Ontario and makes a Honey Crisp Wine and one from McIntosh apples http://archibaldswinery.com and Applewood Farms makes something called the "Smokin' Apple" http://www.applewoodfarmwinery.com/. I personally have tried Legend's fruit wines, much to my satisfaction http://www.legendsestates.com). So happy harvest, friends! Have your apples and drink them too!

A - This wine is very appley (editorial aside from present A: Duh!). It is like a cider and a wine had a baby. It is a very sweet wine and not at all dry. It has no sparkle to it, but is very tasty with a bit of a tingle on your tongue. It would be best served ice cold. I thought it was very good and enjoyed it!

B - I like it! It is very drinkable. Smooth and refreshingly crisp. I could drink the whole bottle. We tasted a lot of apple wines on our trip and this was our favourite out of maybe a dozen or so. They were all good in their own ways though, especially for a cider drinker.

C - This is a drier and sweeter wine than cider. It is between the pub ciders and the sweeter canned ciders in terms of taste. It was very light and in terms of alcohol content is higher than a cider, but lower than a wine. This wine comes straight from the apple orchard and really tastes like it! The smell is a bit spicy like cinnamon but it doesn't taste like it.