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The Cider House Rules–Again!!
Sea Cider ranked as most memorable “winery” visit of 2009, according to wine columnist and educator Rob Dobson of Savour Life magazine.
Sea Cider takes a Silver at TASTE BC 2010!
Liberty Merchant Company’s 16th Annual Taste BC 2010 drew hundreds of Vancouverites to the Hyatt Regency Hotel on January 19th to indulge in tastings from some of the finest restaurants, wineries, breweries and cheese purveyors in BC.
The annual celebration of local flavours and the people who create them brought together the elite in British Columbia’s food and beverage industry, while raising proceeds for the BC Children’s Hospital’s Oak Tree Clinic.
2009 is Sea Cider’s third consecutive year of participation in Taste BC, as well as the third consecutive year to place in the judging–this year Silver for Pippins 2008. Raise a glass!!
For complete list of official judging results, please click here.
Fig Studio Interior Design Gives A Fig About Sea Cider
A Fall visit draws praise:
“A beacon at the end of our long journey, the farm sits perched atop a hill overlooking the sea. A young orchard lined the road leading up to the tasting room and amazing outdoor deck…”. See Fig Studio here.
Slate Magazine praises artisanal cider:
“Most Americans now consider cider—if they consider it at all—to be in the same category as wine coolers or those enigmatic clear malt beverages: chemically suspect, effeminate alternatives to beer. And who can blame them? America’s mass-market ciders are comically weak and inexplicably fizzy. Many are made not from cider apples but from the concentrated juice of eating apples, which is a bit like making wine from seedless table grapes.
This is a sad state of affairs, given that hard cider was the favored beverage of America’s founding generation. Beer makers may adorn their bottles with ale-swilling patriots, and aristocrats like Thomas Jefferson may have enjoyed imported wine. But cider was the drink of the people, from farmers to fighting men, and deservedly so. Good cider is light but not boring, complex but not dominating, satisfying but not sating. Let’s get back to our roots.”
See the rest of “Get ready for the rebirth of cider in America” here.
Sea Cider Featured in Sunset Magazine
Sunset Magazine, the premier resource for achieving the ultimate Western lifestyle, visits Sea Cider in its October 2009 issue:
“What better way to celebrate fall than by sipping hard cider and popping artisanal cheese, surrounded by ocean views and 1,000 young apple trees?”
Southern Exposure for Sea Cider in The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times’ travel writer Carol Pucci describes her journey on our gourmet trail in her article “Feast on Vancouver Island’s Saanich Peninsula in autumn”:
“…drop by Sea Cider Farm for a glass of sparkling apple cider as delicate as French Champagne”.
Sea Cider Reviewed on yelp.com
Thank you Jason S., whoever you are, come back any time.
Reviewer Writes About “Wonderful experience close to home”.
Sea Cider visited by Vancouver bloggers:
Sipped And Slurped Sea Cider’s Super Ciders By The Sea Shore by Anny Chih
Sea Cider on Vancouver Island at Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt
‘New Victoria’ Weekend by Duane Storey
Sea Cider recommended as a lunch stop as part of the “Vin-couver Island Roadtrip” described by the online version of Westworld, BCAA’s travel and leisure magazine:
Read the two-day trip itinerary here.
The Nation’s Capital Learns About Sea Cider
Travel and food writer Margo Pfeiff wrote about her recent visit to the Saanich Peninsula in the June 13, 2009 edition of the Ottawa Citizen. Under the headline “Provence on the Pacific” Sea Cider features prominently in the writer’s account of the riches to be found in Victoria’s backyard. The article begins:
“And this is our Rumrunner cider,” Kristen Jordan says, setting a frosty glass before me, “aged in Newfoundland Screech barrels.”
Really?
One sip and luscious apple flavours surge around my mouth carrying — sure enough — hints of rummy toffee and brown sugar. As Kristen recites the pedigree of each local British Columbia charcuterie and artisanal cheese on my tasting plate, my eyes keep slipping back to the view from the Sea Cider ciderhouse, a stunning landscape of apple orchards sloping toward the ocean with the distant, snowy, volcanic pyramid of Mount Baker on the horizon.
How come I’ve never been in this part of the world before?”
Read more about the riches to be discovered in Victoria’s backyard here.
The Vancouver Sun jumps on board here.
Sea Cider Letter Published in Liquor Canada Magazine
The following letter from Sea Cider was published in the March/April 2009 issue of LIQUOR CANADA under the heading “Raise a glass to cider”:
Greetings from Sea Cider Farm and Ciderhouse in Victoria.
We read with delight the launch issue of Liquor Canada. As a new producer of handcrafted organic cider, we found your magazine’s bar and restaurant industry point of view very interesting and informative. As cidermakers, we were also pleased to see the prominent two page ad for cider appearing in the first few pages of Liquor Canada. Happily, you further reported the fact that there is a positive cider trend in the Canadian marketplace and that national cider volume is growing at 12.4 percent year over year.
You and your readers may not be aware that cider was the favourite beverage in North America prior to the Prohibition era. We believe that a resurgence of the popularity of cider is underway due in part, as you indicated, to a desire for a more natural product. However, the rise of cider is also due to the fact that cider quality, long neglected by mass producers, has been elevated by the artistry of small local cideries right here in Canada. We invite you and your readers to seek out such artisans and to raise a glass of cider.
We hope that Liquor Canada will enjoy rising success that parallels that of cider. To assist you in this regard we offer one small suggestion – change the tag line on your cover to “Wine. Cider. Beer. Spirits. Food.”.
With best wishes,
Bruce and Kristen Jordan
Sea Cider Farm & Ciderhouse
Saanichton, BC
Sea Cider’s Rumrunner Cider Featured on CBC
CBC Radio One host Jo-Ann Roberts features a weekly “Time For Wine” segment on her All Points West show with guest reviewer Troy Townsin. Discussion on the March 30, 2009 show focued on praiseworthy champagne-style wines from BC. Rumrunner was singled out as a cider with “fantastic” champagne qualities. Listen to their discussion here.
Sea Cider named as one of “10 to Watch” by Douglas Magazine
The March/April 2009 issue of Douglas – Victoria’s Business Magazine – features Sea Cider as an “up-and-coming success story” and a new local business “you should definitely be watching”.
Douglas assembled an independent panel of judges to select Greater Victoria’s most notable new businesses. In selecting Sea Cider, the panel noted:
“Kristen and Bruce Jordan make traditional styles of artisan cider with certified organic apples and are setting the bar much higher in terms of the culinary tasting experience in the wine/cidery industry….
Sociability, sustainability, and community involvement are the three pillars of Sea Cider’s business philosophy. The tasting and dining room is a work of art with long wooden tables and a wooden roof all milled from the trees they cleared for the orchard.”