Gwynt y Ddraig Gold Medal

Brewed by Gwynt y Ddraig Cider
Style: Cider
Pontypridd, Wales

Serve in Bowl, Flute, Lager glass

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Bottle @ Hopfen @ Malz, Berlin. Pours clear golden with a off white head. Barnyard, hay, oak and red and green apples. Dry, tasty and quaffable.

Bottled. Clear deep golden, no head. Deep aromas of cobwebs and ripe apples. Mid sweet with medium body and soft mouthfeel. Salty with slight tartness, concentrated flavours. Rich and deep.

500ml bottle. Pours a clear medium gold, with long-lasting fine bubble trails. Its oak-aging is evident on the nose, with some vanilla and sweet smoke notes set against a backdrop of apple skin and leather. A faint initial vanillin sweetness vanishes into tart apple skin, which gives way to bittersweet apple fruit. A touch of muscat leads into lovely smoky oak towards the finish, with some tannic leather to finish it off. There is a lingering sweet apple aftertaste. This is most definitely a superb cider, deserving of its eponymous gold medal. It is a bit like a lighter, slightly sweeter "little brother" of the exceptional Black Dragon Reserve, yet still a delightfully complex cider in its own right.

Bottle. Deep golden with small white head. Aroma is fruit, apples, light acid and a little barnyard. Flavour is apples, fruit, little barnyard, light acid and quite dry.

Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, apples and wood. Flavor is medium sweet. Very dry finish. I’m not big on cider, but this was really good. 281011

Bottle. Yellow colour. Powerfull apple aroma. Great heavy apple flavor. Some barnyrad notes. Dry. Long nice finish. Oily palate. Class-cider.

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are rich crisp apples, wood and notes of alcohol. Nice acidity and dry.

Quite similar to the Black Dragon although this is definitely more dry as the musty tannins do poke out out more in the back palate (where all powerful tannin should make its presence felt). Perhaps a hint of bitterness as well but works well to combat the dryness. Again would be interesting to see if this would cellar.

Bottle 500ml. clear glass.
Clear and sparkling, a medium orange color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate apple, sweet apple, wood notes, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100102]

Bottled. Golden colour with no head. Aroma is sour apples with some leathery and cheesy notes. Flavour is sweeetish sour notesof apples, some cheesyness as well as a mild touch of vanilla.