Harvest Moon Cidery

My boyfriend and I just moved to New York and wanted to try out some of the area’s cideries. Our new IDs are in the mail, but we have many proper forms of identification. We called to see what kinds of ID are acceptable (we live 40 minutes away). While we were on hold, we heard an employee accuse us of being «18 year olds» trying to get alcohol. We are of age and don’t think it was necessary to make those accusations. We will take our business elsewhere.

Talk about wearing a lot of hats!!! Cider, Christmas tree farm, pumpkin farm… they have it all! They tasting room was bright and clean, with a wide array of hard cider to try. We got 3 flights to split among us, and that netted us 21 glasses! Zoinks! I believe this to be the reason that one of our party couldn’t feel her face later that day. Oddly enough the cheapest bottles they had turned out to be our favorite cider in the tasting. Score!!! This is a great place with a great product!

Enjoyed a great tasting of five ciders for $ 4 and get to keep the glass. Friendly & welcoming. Excellent ciders.

What a cool place! I went to college in Caz and I wish this was here when I was there. Me and my husband went on a Friday afternoon in September and it was perfect. We did the tasting first. The bar is a really cool rustic theme. I loved all the wood. The girl was very informed about all the ciders. She was telling us stuff that I wouldn’t even think of. My favorite was the Four Screws. My husband liked the Heritage Hops because it was closer to beer. When had tried our 5 options the bartender gave us a little try of the Blueberry Moon cause that was her favorite. She suggested to my husband mixing the Blueberry Moon with the Heritage Hope. We each got a glass and he loved it. We live 4 hours away so we bought a couple of bottles for home. All together we did two tasting, two glasses to drink out on the patio, and 6 bottles in a canvas bag for $ 66.
I cant wait to do it again. I dont know why other orchards dont do this.

Cute little vineyard on Rt. 13 in Cazenovia. For only $ 4, you can try 5 different ciders out of the 8 available and keep the glass, which has their logo on it.
The lady who ran our tasting was very nice, attentive and made recommendations for us. I ended up buying a blueberry cider to take back, don’t remember the price but it was reasonable.
There isn’t much to do around that area (it is literally on Rt. 13) but the inside of the Tasting Room is very clean and offers other products for sale, such as their own maple syrup and other keepsakes.
I’d recommend visiting if you happen to be in the area.

If you’re in the area and are in need of a boozy diversion, head to the Harvest Moon Cidery! The friends we were visiting took us here and it was definitely one of the highlights of our trip.
The tasting menu consisted of about 8 different hard ciders ranging from super-​dry to super-​sweet. For $ 3 per person you get to choose your own adventure in the form of 5 hard cider tastes.
I stuck to the dryer end of the spectrum and was quite pleased with all of my choices with the Blissful Moon and a hopped cider (for which I cannot remember the name) being my favorites.
They sell take-​away 22oz bottles which range in price between $ 7 – 9 or so and this was kind of the only downer of the experience. We took 3 bottles back to the house and drank them over the next few nights and I found that they were consistently not as good from the bottle as they were from the tap in the tasting room. The Blissful Moon was very flat out of the bottle and the hopped version was flatter and much less «hoppy» than the tasting room version.
That said, it was still a really fun activity and assuming they can increase the quality of their bottling operation the ciders are a really good value.
PLEASE NOTE: The cidery is part of the larger Critz Farms complex which means a couple of things:
#1 — On busy fall weekends they charge a parking/​entrance fee to enter the grounds
#2 — On busy fall weekends there will probably be far more poopy diapers than hard cider drinkers