Westons Henry Westons Vintage Reserve Cider

Bottle, Ølfestival Aarhus 2008. Pours a clear golden cider, without any head. The aroma is fruity and acidic. The flavor is refreshing and a little sour. Finishes dry. Overall a nice cider.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a immediately disappearing white head. Smooth and dry phenol apple aroma. Sweet apple flavour. Light phenol and mild yeasty note, although minor. Very smooth and nice cider.

Nice aroma with notes of old appels and oak. Pale golden colour with no head. Taste is fruity appels with some sourness and oak. Nice dry finish. This is one of the better ticker juices 2006 Vintage

Bottle. Nice clear deep golden colour. Sweet tart apple oaky bit yeasty aroma. Good mouthfeel. The flavour has sweet apples and vinegar with oak, alcohol and a very dry finish.

Bottle from Sainsburys. Pale gold colour with no head and slight carbonation. Sweet, slightly industrial apple aroma with a hint of yeast. Sweet apple apple flavour with a dry finish. Alcohol not prominent, but the drink wasn’t particularly refreshing either. Not my kind of cider.

Bottle, bought @ Øltorvet.dk. Pours quite golden with a little head on the pour - disappears immediately. Lots of bubbles breaking the surface. Aroma is sweet with lots of red apples, a great dose of sourish oakiness. Mouthfeel is flatter than expected with a nice oily feel at first. Flavour masquarades the alcohol very well. Sweet and sticky apples at first, with a great dryness. The oak appears as a great tarty finish. A good cider, but it is very powerful, tart and dry.

500ml Bottle: Actually tasted this one almost a year ago, forgot to rate it as I see in my notes here. Poured golden, apple-juice in colour; mine offered no head at all. The aroma is obviously high in apples, but there’s a distinct sweet white wine coming through as well. Both prevalent in the flavour, but it’s extremely tart and unpleasant to me. Couldn’t finish it, but it’s possible it’s just not my thing.

Bottle. Pours a clear bubbly gold with a spare diminishing white head. Aroma of tart apples, oak and a hint of white wine. Flavour’s also of tart apples but it’s somewhat sweet along with some oak and a hint of alcohol. Average bodied. Nothing special, it’s just O.K.