Description: This cider is made from a blend of at least 11 vintage cider apples. It is then fermented in oak vats. To the pour, it is dark gold in colour, slightly cloudy, and has the aroma of wood and oak; Swilled gently in the glass it reminds you of autumn leaves, but there is […]
Orchard Pig Charmer Cider
Description: This cider pours a very dark gold in colour, with no head and slowly releasing large bubbles. It gives off a very strong aroma of dry crushed apples, without any sweetness. Instantly dry apple tasting, this medium cider is smooth and gives off a rich explosion of apple when swirled in the mouth, leading […]
Duchy Originals Organic Vintage Cider 2011
Description: This is a single vintage 2011 cider. Produced by a cider maker since 1880, the apples selected are a locally grown bitter sweet crop, blended to produce a fruity flavour with a lingering taste. And this is indeed what you get. Very clear and golden to the pour, there is no head, but a […]
Savanna Dry Premium Cider
Description: Very light in colour, with just a hint of foam, this could almost be called a still cider. It has a consistent apples taste with floral peach overtones which gives a very sweet taste although the finish is dry. Rather too bland to drink on its own, given the crowded market it is in, […]
Henneys Frome Valley Dry Cider
Description: Pouring the bottle, you get a light golden liquid, with the aroma of dry apples. The slight foam quickly dissipates, but is retained in the body. The first taste is dry, like Russet apples, but then softens, the inherent bubbles tingling in the mouth as the apple flavour slowly dissipates at the swallow. This […]
Henney’s Vintage Still Cider 2011
Description: Pouring the bottle, you get a very dark gold liquid, with the aroma of dry apples and autumn leaves. This is a still cider so pours without any bubbles. It is really still. Like Dead. But put it to your lips and the taste explodes in the mouth of vintage apples and plums, more […]
Tesco Finest Single Orchard Somerset Cider
Description: On pouring you get a glass of dark golden colour with a fizzing foam, and the aroma of fresh green apples. To taste, the mouth is filled with frothy bubbles in the cider and a gentle but growing apple taste, t give a full body. The finish is fast, leaving only the slightest hint […]
Tesco Finest Oak Matured Still Cider
Description: Pouring the bottle, you get a very light coloured liquid (as in the picture), with a light aroma of apple, still without even a hint of repressed bubble. To the taste, a very smooth apple flavour, sweet to start, but then expanding to reveal a deeper more full bodied apple taste. Smooth on the […]
Perry’s Vintage Reserve Still Cider
Description: On opening you get the aroma of fresh apples with a vanilla earthiness too. This is a still cider so pours a deep gold colour but without a head. The taste is of fresh apples and vanilla – surprisingly fresh tasting for a vintage cider. It is a medium bodied cider that has sufficient […]
el Gaitero Spanish Cider
Description: On opening you get the gentle aroma of stewed apples, from a very light golden colour with fine foam. The taste is smooth, complex without the sharp apple taste of typical ciders. It is medium dry and has much more depth than an English cider. It leaves the palate with the taste of sweet […]