2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle from Sainsburys. Golden in colour with plenty of fizz. Sweet, fresh apples with a short, dry finish. Not much character but an easy drinking thirst quencher.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Corked bottle, from a Nicolas shop, Paris
Pale bond color, hazy, with fine perlage and at least some head. The aroma is a strange mix of apple skins, glue, hazelnuts, plastic. The flavor is quite sweet, with some apple juice and plastic. Not interesting.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Golden cider with a light and not very sweet aroma. The flavour is mainly syrupy sweet with a only a vague hint of dryness. Overall a very drinkable sweet drink.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle from Sainsbury’s, Kidlington, Oxon had this 13-04-08 2006 vintage, Light golden with medium carbonation, bit too sweet but there is a nice juciy appleyness, can’t believe it’s only 2.5% even though it lacks on many fronts I would have still said 5%.
1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
’Vintage 2006’. Pale gold. Sweet custardy aroma. Taste is very sweet with nothing much else in the way of redeeming features. Bit short on ABV as well.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Whitish head for a few seconds; clear yellow-golden liquid. Dry apples, and appleleaves, or even appleblossom. Surprisingly delicate nose, applejuice beyond that. Sweet crunchy apples with a slight sourish underslung; some cheaper, easy sweet kind as cox orange. Sweet juice, enlivened by the high carbonation. Titilating, even gassy. Sweet, inoffensive cider that almost manages to make one forget its weakness in ABV.
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