Description: This Thatchers Rosé Sparkling Medium Somerset Cider pours a beautiful pink colour, with a delicate foam head that doesn’t last, although the cider continues to bubble in the glass. It has the aroma of fresh sweet apples and cherry, very uplifting and light. The taste is very much like a sparkling rosé; full of […]
Thatchers 2011 Vintage Oak Aged Somerset Cider
Description: This Thatchers 2011 Vintage Oak Aged Somerset Cider pours a dark gold colour, with a big head that falls back to just leave a background foam in the glass. It has the aroma of dry apples and that leads into the taste, full of fresh apples, at first sweet and then moving to a […]
Sheppys Oakwood Cider
Description: This Sheppy’s Oakwood Cider pours a light lemon colour with a foam that lasts as long as the pour, it has only the lightest sweet apple aroma. To the taste, initially sweet and uplifting, the sparkle coming out in the mouth lifting the taste. Moves quickly from sweet and light to depth and oak, […]
Sheppys Vintage Reserve Oak Matured Cider 2011
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 […]
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 […]