Cidre

Two cideries lead the marketplace

Wooden Gate Cider presses its bottles on the Manitoba prairies, near Pilot Mound, using 100 percent Manitoba apples. Chokecherry and saskatoon get blended into part of the range. That fruit gives some bottles a flavour you will not find in a plain apple cider. Shiny Apple Cider is built around Niagara-on-the-Lake, pressing local Ontario apples into a classic cider plus a run of flavoured versions. Ontario's craft cider scene alone has grown to nearly a hundred producers today, per the Ontario Craft Cider Association. A few other wineries on this marketplace add a cider of their own to the lineup too. See every cidery on the marketplace for the full list.

How dry or sweet a Canadian cider gets

Sweetness on a cider label runs from bone-dry through off-dry to genuinely sweet, and producers on this marketplace land at several points along it. Fruit-infused versions add a second axis on top of that. A citrus or berry cider reads differently than a plain apple base, even at the same sugar level. Reach for a drier bottle alongside food, and save the sweeter, fruited ones for sipping on their own.