Savanna Dry Premium Cider
Distell Group Limited in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa 🇿🇦
Cider - Dry Regular|
Score
5.47
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Savanna Premium Cider first Siyavanna’d in 1996. Damn, we’re older than Black Twitter. But you know in 27 years you lay down a lot of roots. And like the trees our apples are grown on, our roots go deep. Which means though a lot has changed since ’96 – the way we bring Savanna to the people hasn’t, and never will. Because Siyavanna South Africa.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[Tasting @ yespr – Courtesy of yespr] Clear golden with no head. Sweet fruity aroma with champagne notes. Flavor has grapes and other fruits. Fresh charater with a dry end. Reminds me of sweet champagne. Very refreshing.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2008
at 06:31
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
33 cL clear bottle. Pours pale yellow with a lacing white head. Light phenol, sweet apple and slight acidic aroma. Sweet and acidic apple flavour, goes into a solid dryness. Ends fruity and medium dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2008
at 19:27
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottled. Pale golden, no head. Aroma of straight apple juice. Lightky dry with some candyish weetness underneath. Very simple, with a simple juice flavour. It stays away from being cloying making it a tolerable industry cider.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2008
at 07:39
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottled(330ml). -From only supermarket I’ve found in Bremen. I was in a hurry so I didn’t pay attention what I was buying and accidentaly bought this. For Magners I’ve said that it was the last cider for me because I simply don’t like that drink. Savana was yet another conformation that I don’t like ciders at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2007
at 03:25
4.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle (5.5%) courtesy of and shared with ozujsko (thanks!) Gee, the first thing I get to rate from South Africa ends up being a cider.... the label shows heaps and heaps of additives/adjunct. Gah. Poured a misty yellow/pale gold colour, with a small white head that went away fast. Quite vinuous nose, dust and more grapes than apples. The taste is, well, not all that brilliant. The cider that seems to be the base nets it notes of both sweet red and sour green apples and sulphury egginess, but that’s drowned by distinctly fake notes of apple aroma and heaps on heaps of sweeteners. Ends up not being all that pleasant and dry is hardly a fitting descriptor. Complex in the wrong way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2007
at 12:06
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear golden colour w/ large bubbles. Bright crisp wood & apple skin nose. Soft body. Tart with some icing sugar, gentle apple and late sulphur. Sweet, very approachable finish. In the middle there’s a limey/leathery sort of note...I can’t decide if I like that or not. Probably not.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Apr 2007
at 00:38
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle from Tesco, Aylesbury 17-07-06. This isn’t really a dry cider, definately sweet, maybe South Africa tastes consider this dry? Poured golden, bit fizzy, sweet apple aroma’s. One overiding thing that I noted in the taste was of a real gingery flavour, appley but nothing great, fairly standard.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2006
at 02:51
2.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
340ml bottle from Tesco. Dry? Dry? I don’t think so. Gold colour with thin white head. Chemical perfume aroma, some sweet apple. Fizzy and sweet and horrible in mouth with some apple concentrate. Not sure an actual real apple has ever been anywhere near this. I agree with a previous rating, to be avoided.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2006
at 15:38