Vintage Kingston Black Cider (Bottle)
New Forest Cider in Ringwood, Hampshire, England 🏴
Cider - Single Variety Regular|
Score
6.60
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We’ve taken our much loved single variety Kingston Black cider, filtered, carbonated and bottled for a pleasingly dry sparkling version. Still as gutsy as the original!
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle from New Forest Cider stall, Borough Market. Yellow gold colour, short-lived fizzy white foam head and mucky apple & funk aroma. Taste is tart, apple, fruity and funky, woody, vinegary note with drying tannins. Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, dry tangy sourish tannic finish. Quite drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Clear golden colour, white head. Aroma of apple, apple skins and pips, light yeast. Light sweet flavour, light bitter, bitter apples. Finish apples. Quite like the Kingston Black, it appears.
(from 50cL bottle @ Chris and Ruth’s place, post-RBESG ’14 tasting)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared at ChrisO. Clear golden color, virtually no head. Smell and taste apple, quite dry, slightly vinous. Hmm it’s ok.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
50 cl bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is zesty and smooth apples. Dry, citric, zesty and solid apples. Lingering dry apple finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
500ml bottle from Borough Market. Drank this alongside Sheppy’s Kingston Black to compare. This has the same ABV but appears more orangey and thus more tannic and gum-sucking. The fruitiness is there but teasing you from a distance as you feel your gums rubbing against your tongue like velcro. Aroma is much stronger also, barnyard with a little horse stables, which actually emerges from the taste about 4 sips in. Probably more interesting than Sheppys but also a lot rougher.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Golden with a small white head. Fruity apple aroma with a floral touch. Dry apple juice flavour with a touch of wood
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Thanks Patrick. Pours clear golden with a off white head. Sweet red apples. Dry and fine acidicity. Smooth. Ends dry. Tasty and easy.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A light golden cider. The aroma is dominated by apples. The flavor is sweet with notes of apples, leading to a dry apply finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
At the Bree Louise. Pours a lightly cloudy, pale yellow. Very dank aroma with notes of vinegar and apples. Wow, funky flavor, acidic, spicy, dank, with apples and cinnamon. Medium bodied, flat with definite warmth. Finishes funky and spicy, moderately sweet, slightly tart and tangy. Pretty interesting stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 500ml. clear glass.Clear and sparkling, a light to medium yellow color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate apple, sweet apple, fresh green apple, light alcohol, medicine notes. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light to moderate acidic with a average to long duration, finish is dry dry. Body is light medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100102]