Vintage Reserve
Sheppy's Cider in Taunton, Somerset, England 🏴
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Score
6.78
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Sheppy’s Vintage Reserve Cider is produced from entirely home-grown apples. It is a blend of one year’s harvest of the highest quality bittersweet apples such as Chisel Jersey, Yarlington Mill, Stoke Red and Tremlett’s Bitter. It is fermented and then matured in oak vats to achieve its fine, award winning full bodied flavour.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle under the guise of a Marks & Spencer cider. Pours a light gold, no head. Aroma of fruity moderately sour apples, dank oak vats and a hint of yeast. Taste is bitter sweet although more on the sweet side, matured apples slightly tart, oak, semi-dry finish with a hint of the ABV. Moderate body a little syrupy on the palate. This is a very nice cider.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2020
at 23:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle from Broom Hill Farm Shop, Bishop Auckland. Golden colour, short-lived white foam head and aroma of tangy apple, some core. Taste is sweetish, mellow apple, tangy, skin & core, with some caramel and vanilla hints, and boozy, bittersweet, spicy tannin. Medium bodied, light carbonation, dry tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2020
at 19:30
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2020
at 19:14
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Clear golden pour with soft carbonation. Notes of macerated apple, mouldy oak, wood, a bit of champagne, pears. Really nice stuff, decently dry and with a nice amount of wood. Super refreshing on a hot summer day.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2020
at 18:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A golden cider with no head. The aroma has notes of apples, lemons, and wood. The flavor is apples, lemons, and wood, leading to a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2020
at 13:08
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Golden colour with no head. Aroma has loads of cork dryness. Flavour starts out really dry. In the finish it gets sweeter.
Tried
on 23 May 2020
at 14:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Fenwicks, Newcastle. Golden amber colour, short-lived white foam head and aroma of fruity, baked apple, caramel hint, light funk. Taste is sweetish, fruity apple, fleshy, with apple skin & core, baked apple notes and drying citric, some earthy tannin. Medium bodied, medium carbonation, crisp medium-dry mellow tannic finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2020
at 18:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.5 l bottle from local 'Getränke Hoffmann', 2017 vintage, bottled in November 2018. Clear, golden with a thin, fluffy, quickly diminishing, white head. Sweetish, sourish, quite fruity and gently woody aroma of ripe apples and some oak. Moderately sweet, slightly sour, quite fruity and slightly woody taste of ripe apples, some oak and a touch of vanilla, followed by a medium long, gently tart, fairly woody and quite dry finish. Thin to medium body, slightly astringent and gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft to average carbonation. Very elegant cider, extremely well-balanced with pleasant woody notes, lovely!
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2019
at 19:36
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Tried
on 06 Feb 2019
at 11:03
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
I payed $1.29 for a closeout bottle of this at Prospect Beer, woooooooO! Pint glass. 2014, 6.9% abv edition. Clear, faintly fizzy, amber pour. Stuffy bittersweet apples, wood, mushroom & musk on the nose. Soft carbonation, soft tannins, half sweet apples & stone fruit, minerally, lots of skin. Ashy finish. Mellow alcohol. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2018
at 00:09