Imperial Cyder
Aspall Cyder in Debenham, Suffolk, England 🏴
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Score
6.75
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Note: This entry is for non-vintage specific versions/ratings.
We called this cyder Imperial in honour of our great grandfather JB Chevallier’s success at the Imperial Fruit Show in 1921. Every year we craft a special vintage.
An exceptional full-bodied cider, made with a blend of muscovado sugar and a single year's harvest of bittersweet apples.
Aspall sold this non-vintage specific version of its Imperial Cyder outside the UK, and stopped adding a sequential harvest number to their Imperial Vintage Cyder in 2023, following the release of Harvest No. 293.
We called this cyder Imperial in honour of our great grandfather JB Chevallier’s success at the Imperial Fruit Show in 1921. Every year we craft a special vintage.
An exceptional full-bodied cider, made with a blend of muscovado sugar and a single year's harvest of bittersweet apples.
Aspall sold this non-vintage specific version of its Imperial Cyder outside the UK, and stopped adding a sequential harvest number to their Imperial Vintage Cyder in 2023, following the release of Harvest No. 293.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml long necked bottle, from Sainsburys Darlington 14Nov2025. Golden colour, white foam head and aroma of apple, core, sulphury hint. Taste is sweet, appley, core, caramel, candy note, with wood, oak, and some earthy bittersweet tannin. Medium bodied, light carbonation, sweetish drying mellow tannic finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Sainsbury's (Various locations)
on 14 Nov 2025
at 19:35
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle at home, Sharon supermarket pick up, 02/11/2025.
Golden to light copper with a fast escaping white head formed of bubbles.
Nose is sweet apple, caramel, grass, sugars.
Taste comprises caramelised apples, sugars, tannins, apple skins, light boose.
Medium bodied, light prickly carbonation, semi drying close.
It's okay if a little on the sweet side.
Golden to light copper with a fast escaping white head formed of bubbles.
Nose is sweet apple, caramel, grass, sugars.
Taste comprises caramelised apples, sugars, tannins, apple skins, light boose.
Medium bodied, light prickly carbonation, semi drying close.
It's okay if a little on the sweet side.
Tried
on 02 Nov 2025
at 17:28
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle from Sainsbury's.
Appearance - bright golden to copper, steady carbonation.
Nose - bittersweet apples, juicy but good acid.
Taste - more of the same.
Palate - yes, bittersweet overall and fairly full in body. Good linger.
Overall - quite good.
Appearance - bright golden to copper, steady carbonation.
Nose - bittersweet apples, juicy but good acid.
Taste - more of the same.
Palate - yes, bittersweet overall and fairly full in body. Good linger.
Overall - quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Appellation Wines (Comely Bank)
on 29 Oct 2025
at 19:02
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Ciderwinkel. Aroma is sweet and slightly tart apple with apple juice, ripe apple, hint of almond. Fairly sweet flavour, lightly tart. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2025
at 07:05
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Aroma of ripe red apples with oaky woody undertones. Taste of red and green apples with the wood coming through. A biter sweet dry finish with average carbonation. Very nice
Tried
on 12 Jan 2025
at 11:06
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle from Waitrose, Solihull. Clear gold, bubbles around the edges, quite carbonated. Nice dry fruity apple aroma, some skins, light leather. Sweet apple pith, tangy middle, bitter woodiness, sugars, semi-dry, slightly boozy going down but warming. Medium bodied, slick, fine carbonation and not overdone despite appearance. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:06
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2023
at 20:23
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Smukla butelka, ladnie sie prezentuje, cydr rowniez, mocno musujacy, mineralny, lekko pienisty, ale poczatkowo. Zlocista barwa, pachnie wiklinowym koszem pelnym dorodnych jablek. W smaku szarlotka, wytrawnosc, slodkosc umiarkowana, taniczne, skorka agrestu, porzeczka biala. dobre jablkowe wyraziste, alko na skraju wyczuwalnosci, ale jednak nie nachalne. Po prostu dobry zbior i dobra rzemieslnicza produkcja tego cydru.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2022
at 19:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle: BBE Aug 2023. Drank at home on 20th Dec 2020. It's like an apple flavoured drink with alcohol really, bit darker than some of the other stuff called cider/cyder I have tried.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2020
at 17:29
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
50cl bottle from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Harvest 290. Pours intense gold with limited medium grained foam, white. Aroma is elegant, of apple. Body is fairly dense, with good carbonation. Taste is medium sweet. Final is average in length.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2020
at 20:38