4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
2011 bottle - Orange gold in colour with no head. Dry smell of apples. Medium thick body. Strong apple sweetness with a dry sour finish. Excellent balance and great delicious taste.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
500ml bottle. Pours gold with low carbonation. Aroma is tart apples, plasters and plasticine. Taste is woody to start. Very dry finish with sharp sweet apple. Full in the mouth with lots of carbonation.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle 500ml. @ chriso.
Clear medium orange colour with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate apple, sour apples, sweet apples, barnyard notes. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light light acidic with a average to long duration, apple, sweet apples. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat to soft. [20110501]
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Sainsbury. This is an odd cider; aroma and flavour have totally different elements. Nose of wood, sour apple, dust and earthyness. Flavour is sweet apple, apple juice, bit candy like. Medium carbonation.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(2010 Vintage bottle) Eazy stuff. zappy and alive ; a nice dry, tangy woodiness is there -with some sweet apple fleshy notes being soothing. Pretty plesant.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Sainsburys. Vintage 2009 7.4% ABV. Clear orange gold colour with only a few bubbles round the collar. Mostly orange and apple fruit on the aroma, with maybe something a bit deeper lurking there. Full fresh apple taste in the mouth. Some dryness and some wood and some marzipan oddly on the initial swallow and finish. Decent attack on the gums by the tannins. Some sweetness in the mouth. Very decent cider, about the best I’ve had in 2 days of drinking the stuff. Attack on the gums is pretty decent as is the tickle on the tongue. Very decent cider. Maybe just a touch too sweet.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
0.5 l bottle (vintage 2009) at Rento, Turku. Sweetish ripe applea aroma with pear. Sweetish with pear, oak and pineapple. Slightly tannic and fairly carbonated. Has clearly an aged quality to it.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled (vintage 2009). Golden colour, small head. Aroma is rotten apples, wood, earth and some yeasty. Flavour is fruits, earth, sourness and mild yeastyness.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Labelled ’John Thatcher’s Vintage of 2008’. Gold. Fizzy. Pleasant sweet aroma with some oak. taste is less impressive: it’s got a little dryness after the fruity sweetness, but I was hoping for something a little more sour.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml bottle (Kaisla, Heslinki)
Very modest aroma, light fruitiness, some acidity, and some wineyness. Very dry, but not in a sticky way. Good full body, sharp and pippy. Pretty woody.
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