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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5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
A yellow cider, that is quite carbonated, so it starts out with a thick white head, but it doesn’t last long. The aroma is sweet apples, with a hint of acidity. The flavor is sweet, somewhat artificial with a nice laid back apple presence, with a slight acidity, like eating apples that are not quite ripe yet. It is quite refreshing, and the 6% ABV are not tasted.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2006
at 16:00
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
(Bottle 34 cl) Clear golden with no head. Lightly tart apple aroma. Medium body with lightly chemical notes of apples and pine. Somewhat astringent finish. Not even a fresh sample like this is very good, although extremely popular in South Africa - especially among the female segment. 100508 Earlier rating: (Bottle 34 cl) Courtesy of Hildigöltur. Clear golden with a creamy, white head. Sourish nose, but the flavour is surprisingly sweet, with only a weak, tart edge. Would’ve been OK if it wasn’t for a very unpleasant, odd, chemical tang. 3/3/3/2/6=1.7 260705
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2005
at 03:24
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle with Muzzlehatch and Tiggmtl. Clear bottle, and I’m saddened to learn that we did not drink it in the "traditional" manner (if you look on their website, they say it is drunk with a lemon wedge in the neck, straight from the bottle). Well that certainly conjures up images of a certain other infamous beer. Anyways, I chose this one, over the light, hoping it would be "dry" as the name suggests. It was not. While the pour was decent for a cider, goldenrod with a fizzy film of bubbles that recedes rapidly, and even the aroma was tolerable (sweet apples, honey, a bit of dry herbs), the flavor was just, to me, quite cloying. Not dry in the least, and I am really shocked to see this rated a 3.53!!! The beer attempts to get crisp on the end, but as it warms and thins out, the extreme sugariness takes over. I’d be afraid of contracting diabetes if I drank too many of these, I can’t find much other than apple sugar in this, and it isn’t even very real tasting. I think the fact that the company is trying to market this as "traditionally drunk from the bottle with a lemon wedge" says more to its discredit than I can.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2005
at 11:13