Special Reserve Cider (Bottle)
Biddenden Vineyards in Ashford, Kent, England 🏴
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Score
7.20
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750ml bottle from Biddenden. Clear coppery amber gold colour, no head and aroma of rich apple, woody oak, whisky barrel hint. Taste is sweet, concentrated ripe apple, tangy & earthy, slightly herby spice, with syrup, honey hints, wood barrel, oaky whisky notes, and some drying tannins. Oily mouthfeel, full bodied, low carbonation, dry tannic & warming boozy finish. Very sippable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle picked up at Biddenden, consumed to bring in the New Year. It pours clear deep amber with pretty much no head. The nose is rich, plenty of sweet apple, oily, touch of wood and whisky. The taste is smooth, juicy, unctuous apple, candied pear, oily, wood and some whisky in the background. Not actually as much whisky character as I was expecting. Good depth and drinks incredibly smoothly. Has a bit of ice-cider about it. A great sipper.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Glass from a bottle at The cherry Tree Canterbury shared with Ang. Bright gold with no head. Some apple on the aroma. Quite sticky. Quite hot in moith. Some subtle whisky jotes. More like a grain whisky cask. Quite sweet and sticky. Finish has sweetish apples. But not unpleasant. Highland whisky orange notes. Quite impressive for the kick 3.5 bottle at The New Inn Canterbury. Clear amber colour no head. Eating apple aroma some caramelised apple. Remarkably smooth. Just a hint of heat on the finish. Wow. Sweetish apple. Like a caramelised apple tart. Pretty sweet. Rather good. Way too sweet. Worth it though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
(Bottle) Clear amber, no head and quite flat.Fantastic and very intense aroma of whisky and fruit. Extreme fullness and a marked sweetness with the apple flavours lurking underneath - but they’re very downplayed. A very sophisticated "Grand Cru" cider. The King og ciders? 200106
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
This cider caught me by surprise - inspite of knowing that it at matured in whisky cask - I had no idea, that the aroma would be so powerful and only of whisky - I imagined some apples in the aroma, but only whisky, so I was kicked back in the chair overwhelmed and not too satisfied - eventhough the whisky aroma is nice (for a whisky). The color is a dark orange and no surprise it has no head. The flavor is much more complex, than the aroma, since it has a really interesting combination of notes from the apples and the whisky, with some acidity from the apples as well as some woody notes from the cask, and a dry end. I would have like if the same combination of apples and whisky that is present in the flavor also was present in the aroma.