Christmas Cider
Marks & Spencer Stores in Paddington, Greater London, England 🏴
Brewed at/by: Sandford OrchardsCider - Spiced Regular
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Score
6.79
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Citrus and spice-flavoured cloudy winter cider, made with vintage English apples and clementine juice for a warming flavour. Expertly blended for M&S by Sandford Orchards in Devon. With its festive flavour and seasonal spices, this cider is a perfect match for roast pork, baked gammon and a Christmas Yule log. Best served chilled.
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SVD (7137) reviewed Christmas Cider from Marks & Spencer Stores 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared, hazy golden. Aroma is cidre, spices, apple. Taste is the same, spices, apple, sweet. Not bad
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Bottle from M&S Reading. Hazy yellow, light fizz. There's a good rich proper medium-dry cider in here with tannic apples and caramel. That's overlaid with light but tasty flavours of fresh oranges and ground cinnamon (they taste like the real thing rather than artificial flavourings or syrups). It's all very well balanced, and it's very drinkable. It's that all too rare thing - a flavoured cider that actually tastes of cider and isn't overly sweet. I enjoyed this - well done Sandfords!
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Christmas Cider from Marks & Spencer Stores 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle on the 1940 ex MYB, from the M&S there, 20/09/24. Golden with a white head. Nose is apple skins, caramel, herb, light winter cheer, straw. Taste comprises bitter sweet apple, toffee apple, clove, orchard wood, hint of cinnamon. Medium bodied, light spritzy carbonation, semi drying close A decent and well balanced flavoured cider doing what it says on the label rather well.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from local M&S Food. Pours clear golden yellow with small white bubbly head. Prominent sweet apple with Christmas spices. Apple & cinnamon well integrated.
Deanso (15673) reviewed Christmas Cider from Marks & Spencer Stores 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
50cl bottle from M&S.
Very thin white head. Cloudy golden pour. Some herbal notes. Pretty decent
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle purchased and drank in September; well why not! Cloudy yellow pour with some bubbles around the edges. Sounds heavily carbonated like a pop. Aroma of apple juice and spice such as clove and nutmeg Taste is apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove and some berry fruitiness (at which point I look at the ingredients on bottle and it seems to be Juniper berries). Light body and a sparkling carbonation. Personally I quite like this cold, light and sparkling as the flavours are there to back it up and as such its very refreshing. Of course I'm not drinking this in the middle of a cold winter!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Danke an minutemat. Süffiger, süßlich gewürziger Start. Apfelig, etwas Zimt, hohe Süffigkeit. Spritzig, die Süße überflügelt schnell die Säure. Nett. 10/8/10/10/8/9
Stuu (34525) reviewed Christmas Cider from Marks & Spencer Stores 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours hazy yellow, nose is apple, funk, hints of spice, taste is juicy, crisp apple, some of the spices coming through.
Olut (21769) reviewed Christmas Cider from Marks & Spencer Stores 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Marks & Spencer, Manchester. Cloudy light amber-yellow. Has a fizz with clementine giving a citrus edge to its apple flavour. Is mildly spiced.
Reubs (35480) reviewed Christmas Cider from Marks & Spencer Stores 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from M&S, thanks to/shared at folks in London - clear golden yellow pour with small white bubbly head. Prominent sweet apple, sweet fruity,with some nice cinnamon spice, apple skin, slight wooden accents, nicely judged spiced apple finish, apple and cinnamon works well here. --- Beer merged from original tick of Christmas Cider on 26 Mar 2025 at 12:32 - Score: 7. Original review text: Medium sweet balanced apple fruity, bramley apples, apple sauce, getting those seasonal spices coming through, touch of nutmeg, the cardamom and orange peel, lingering apple finish. Pretty decent overall.