Christmas Cider
Marks & Spencer Stores in Paddington, Greater London, England 🏴
Brewed at/by: Sandford OrchardsCider - Spiced Regular
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Score
6.85
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Originally marketed and labelled as 'Devon Christmas Cider'.
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.
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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6.4/10
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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
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2025
at 19:00
7.8/10
App, cinnamon, Allspice and sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2025
at 20:50
7.6/10
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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!
Tried
from Bottle
from
Marks and Spencer (Various Locations)
on 08 Feb 2025
at 13:42
7/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2024
at 18:38
6.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2020
at 22:03
6.8/10
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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
Very thin white head. Cloudy golden pour. Some herbal notes. Pretty decent
Tried
from Bottle
from
Marks & Spencer (Various Locations)
on 21 Oct 2020
at 20:12
7.1/10
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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!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2020
at 01:13
6.1/10
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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
Tried
on 12 Feb 2019
at 09:04
6.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2018
at 15:52
6.2/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2018
at 21:44