Description: With the aroma of summer apples, this pours a pure gold colour, with a good foam that doesn’t last. The first sip tells you that you have a vintage cider. It is full of oaked apple flavour, a dry apple start before moving to a sweeter bodied finish, yet maintaining that dry crispness throughout […]
Rekorderlig Winter Cider
Description: With the Winter season upon us, now is the time a lot of mulled wine and hot ciders start to appear on the market. This Rekorderlig Winter Cider from Sweden is sold by the bottle, but also in small heated vats in good pubs, so I felt I had to try one. It is […]
Taurus Dry Cider
Description: Pours a very light golden colour with a weak aroma of apples. There is a full foam head that lasts, and maintains its sparkling within the glass. Initial tasting of light summer apples followed quickly by sweetness and bubbles. No lingering taste at the finish, which leads to the sensation of dryness which is […]
Heston Spiced Mulled Cider
Description: It said “Heston” on the label so I knew it would be different but good; how wrong I was in this case. The Heston Spiced Mulled Cider is a Christmas special at Waitrose. I took a few bottles to entertain friends this evening, along with some nibbles. I first sampled the cider to make […]
Thatchers Katy Single Variety Cider
Description: On pouring you get a glass of very light, fine bubble cider, with only the slightest aroma of apples and a hind of buttermilk. The single apple variety, Katy, leads to a distinctive taste that is pleasing, but it is much lighter than a regular cider. It could almost be drunk as a replacement […]
Addlestone Cloudy Premium Cider
Description: The short stocky bottle shows lots of promise. Pouring cloudy, exactly as it should, there is a gentle aroma of butterscotch and apples. Tasting reveals a very weak body, more like apple juice poured into water, and a slight lingering taste after the swallow of apple fruit, but now of the warmth you might […]
Tillington Hills Premium Cider
Description: This pours very light, with the slightest hint of fine foam. To the taste, initially very floral, and the apple taste slowly develops. The fine bubbles are maintained throughout the drink, giving it a certain ‘zing’ at the finish. It is very refreshing and very light, rather than a full-on cider apple taste. If […]
Aspall Dry Premier Cru Suffolk Cider
Description: Aspall have been making cider since 1728 and this is shown in their range of ciders. This is Aspall’s flagship Premier Cru cider, and was reintroduced in 2000. It pours straw-gold colour with a clean, light aroma of summer dessert apples. To the taste it is dry, round and creamy on the palate with […]
Aspall Crisp Draught Suffolk Cider
Description: Aspall have been making cider since 1728 and this is shown in their range of ciders. The Crisp Draught cider was created in 2003 to mark the 275th anniversary of cider making in Aspall. It pours golden in colour, with a reasonable foam. It has a very fresh green apple aroma, which leads into […]
Aspall Classic Organic Suffolk Cider
Description: Aspall have been making cider since 1728 and this is shown in their range of ciders. The Organic Classic is their base cider, described as strong and robust – which actually doesn’t really do credit to the brew. It pours a nice golden apple colour, with a light foam of lively bubbles and has […]