Clos Normand Brut
CSR (Cidreries et Sopagly Reunies) in Le Theil (Orne), Normandie, France 🇫🇷
Cider - Dry Regular|
Score
6.28
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
750ml bottle poured into a tulip. Pours a clear light caramel. Aroma of motta apple juice. Taste is light sweet and light tart. Light bodied with a thin slick texture. Fizzy carbonation and a long finish. Overall, not bad. Not really special but not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2013
at 19:45
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Refrigerated green 75 cl bottle which is corked and caged poured into a white wine glass. Pours deep golden/caramel, well carbonated, smooth texture, and light apple aroma. Taste starts off slightly tart/slightly sweet apple and finishes dry apple. Pretty good, but too simple to be one of the better ciders.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2012
at 19:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
750 from ? I think Beer Geek. Pours amber gold with a fluffy white head. Near medium body with mild carbonation. Flavor is apple skin, cooked apple, pear, light yeast, and something like over-ripe fruit. It has substance and character. Much more so than common commercial ciders. It has a cooked character, but truthfully that’s an improvement over most ciders. In a very mild way it’s like baked cinnamon apple. Really nice drink.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2009
at 18:19
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Clear rust/gold color with just a whisper of head. Powerful apple aroma with other fruits in there as well. Medium bodied. Crisp, lightly tart apple flavor. Slightly sweet, but not too much- which is nice. Easy drinking with a mild dryness in the finish. Very enjoyable.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2009
at 04:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Big green bottle with a cork. Pop the lid and yer greeted with a friendly fruity aroma, almost like some kinda berries. Pour yeilds a pale lager appearance with plenty of sparkling. Taste is very good but it has this background flavor that I can’t really identify, reminds me of salad greens a little. A very decent amount of carbonation sizzles the tongue and I like it. Goes down really easy even tho it has a tad more dryness that I can appreciate. In the background I think I do detect a shade of tartness, but just barely. Overall a good cider tasting experience, does not have that fruity alko pop feel to it that is so common with US ciders.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2009
at 14:22
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle, 4% as Clos Normand Herb. Old apple aroma with a hint of vomit. Pale yellow colour. The flavour is medium-sweet with a slight taste of apple. Not acidic enough. Cardboard aftertaste. GTIN: 3192200 000670
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2008
at 16:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
75 cL bottle, bought in a German supermarket (Ullrich Hit, Mohrenstr, Berlin) as Clos Normand Herb, 4%, produced at the Le Theil-sur-Huisne facility. Pours clear and golden orange with a fizzy white head. Sulphorish dry apple aroma. Flavour follows this closely with a mix of sulphor and apple, quite dry. Ends mild acidic and dry. Pleasant and flavourful Normandic cider. Goes well with salmon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2008
at 19:24
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours with a quickly vanishing white head covering a clear, deep golden body. Aroma of overripened apples and vinegar with a bit of caramalized oxidation. Taste like a no alcohol cheap children’s cider (overly sweet and bland). Slightly on the fizzy side.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2008
at 22:34
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
This is way under rated. Pours clear light copper with a small head that after some time dissipates into nothingness. Looks like watered down cognac after a while. Aroma is not overpowering but strong syrup sugar apples. Some apples skins tartness there to set it off. Taste is sweeter apples being used with a short aftertaste is drier "greener" apples. It’s a nice quaff able cider. Very light with a slightly stinging carbonation.
Cork&cage 750mL green bottle, Duvel larger tulip glass.
Cork&cage 750mL green bottle, Duvel larger tulip glass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2008
at 19:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pours a light orange/amber with a short lively head. A bit soda pop-ish I suppose. Aroma is apples, a bit tart and ascidic. Flavor is more like Martinellis than most of the other more dry ciders I have had. The right mix of apple flavor and dry tartness. The fairly low ABV made this more enjoyable to me. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2008
at 15:19