The Phenomenon of Ice Cider

Its Inventor Still Makes the Best

ON THEIR FARM NEAR Frelighsburg, Quebec, just a mile from the border with Vermont, Christian Barthomeuf and his wife, Louise Dupuis, make an exceptional cidre de glace — “ice cider.” In December or January, even February, depending on the weather, they pick frozen apples from their 600 trees. The internal temperature of the fruit must reach –10 degrees …