Longueville House Mór Cider

Mór Cider is a brand new offering from Longueville House, a family business run by William O’Callghan from Cork, Ireland. As you might recall from my earlier post about their Longueville House Cider, Longueville House is also famous for making Ireland’s only apple brandy. Interestingly, the Mór is actually their Longueville House Cider,  a slowly fermented cider made from Michelin and Dabinett cider apples, additionally matured for 6 months in their award-winning apple brandy casks. Why Mór? In Gaelic/Irish, the word Mór is often used to describe something great, big or senior.

Longueville House Cider Mór Cider might have been launched only recently, but it has already picked up Gold in the Dublin Craft Cider Cup 2018 at The Alltech Commonwealth Cup.
Company: Longueville House
Place of Origin: Mallow, Cork, Ireland
Apples: a blend of Michelin and Dabinett varieties
Sweetness as per label: medium dry
ABV: 8%
Package type: 500ml brown glass with crown cap
Recommended type of glass: pint glass or chalice glass

Appearance: pours a lightly hazy pale amber with an orange hue and a white short-lived head. Slightly sparkling. Body is low to medium.

Aroma/Nose: the nose has medicinal and herbal notes, light acetic note, hints of funk, beeswax, notes of grapefruit, red apples and still fermenting apples.

Taste: my first taste is lightly sweet with a low acidity of lemon and low vinegar. On the mid-palate medicinal and herbal notes, a plain bitter taste, vanilla, light nail polish, notes of grapefruit, light astringent taste, orange, blood orange and grapefruit peel. It finishes dry, fruity and spicy at the same time with herbal notes, red apples, and a lingering astringent taste.

Overall: Mór is a very interesting and rich cider with a very broad palate of flavours. The maturation in apple brandy cask indeed added many notes and contributed to the complexity making the Mór tasting refreshing but at the same time heavy with the ABV of 8% (ABV is well hidden). With such a nice palate it will make a great winter cider. But personally, I prefer their Longueville House Cider much better. I guess it was just too heavy for my palate. Or it is too warm outside. Nevertheless, I think it is a very unique offering that will appeal to those who like heavy ciders. 4/6 

Availability: locally in Ireland in a number of restaurants/pubs/shops such as Joyce’s Supermarkets, O’Briens Wines or Super Valu Store. Online in Ireland from Ardkeen Quality Food Store, and online in Germany exclusively from CiderKultur, the Netherlands from Ciderwinkel.

Price: Longueville Mór was a sample provided by Longueville House and CiderKultur, a new webshop offering a wide selection of great cider.