Biddenden Vineyards celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019, an exciting milestone to have reached at an exciting time for English, and especially Kentish wine. The family is able to draw on 5 decades of winemaking knowledge and pair this with new methods & techniques to ensure that Biddenden is at the forefront of the English wine industry.
Scopey (25115) reviewed Biddies 5 from Biddenden Vineyards 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Biddenden. It pours clear super pale greenish - gold with a quickly dissipating fizzy head. The aroma is sweet dessert apple, sugary, apple skin, damp oak, hay and wet grass. The taste is initially crisp and crunchy, refreshers, sweet - sour, some pucker, dessert apple, light acidity, juicy, soor plooms, dry oak and hay with a drying finish. Average body and moderate, fizzy carbonation. Fresh and quenching. Aroma is sweet, but taste is better balanced.
Scopey (25115) reviewed Biddies 8 from Biddenden Vineyards 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Biddenden. It pours clear supe pale greenish - gold with a fizzy quickly dissipating white head. The aroma is bitter - sweet, musty, apple skin, dry oak, sour, fizzy candy, sour green chewits and a splash white wine. The taste is crisp, firmly dry, bitter - sweet, juicy, spritzy, green crisp apple, gooseberry, white grape, vinous, boozy kick, fizzy candy, gummy candy, oily and light tannin with a slick, fruity finish. Medium body and fine, fizzy carbonation. Not a huge amount of it, but sure drinks easy for an 8+%er.
Olut (21769) reviewed Red Love from Biddenden Vineyards 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Box @ Freed Man, Walmer. Pale red rose and slightly soured in both its nose and finish with its apple. However, there is a blast of sweetness in its initial red apple taste.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Box @ Montefiore Arms, Ramsgate. Clear pale golden with a dryness but a good apple taste about it too, aroma too.
Holmen2 (8836) reviewed Red Love from Biddenden Vineyards 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
From bag-in-a-box at the Sausage & Cider Festival at The Dog & Bell, Deptford, London 04.06.22. Clear pale orange to pink. No head. Aroma and taste of sweet red apples, something undefinable tropical and apple peel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
From bag-in-a-box at the Sausage & Cider Festival at The Dog & Bell, Deptford, London 04.06.22. Almost clear, but with a hue of yellow and green. Aroma and taste of bitter yellow apples, green apples and apple peel. Some bitterness in aftertaste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
From bag-in-a-box at the Sausage & Cider Festival at The Dog & Bell, Deptford, London 04.06.22. Clear pale urine colour. No head. Fine aroma and taste of crisp yellow apples, cider apples and wild apples. Dry and crisp mouthfeel. Very drinkable.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
From bag-in-a-box at the Sausage & Cider Festival at The Dog & Bell, Deptford, London 03.06.22. Cloudy goldeb straw colour. No head. Decent aroma and taste of sweet apples, sweet apple juice, apple pie and sugar canes. Easily drinkable and easily forgetable.
Holmen2 (8836) reviewed Monks Delight from Biddenden Vineyards 3 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
From bag-in-a-box at the Sausage & Cider Festival at The Dog & Bell, Deptford, London 02.06.22. Clear golden. No head or lacing. Aroma and taste of sweet red apples, cider apples, apple juice, apple peel, Yuletide spices and moderate apple bitterness. Well-balanced and quaffable. Appropriately uncarbonated.
danlo (13133) reviewed Biddies 5 from Biddenden Vineyards 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from Bier Huis. Pale yellow gold colour, short-lived fizzy white foam head and aroma of fruity fleshy apple, floral, citrusy hints. Taste is sweetish, fruity, apple, fleshy, some tartness, with gooseberry notes, and citric acidity. Light to medium bodied, medium carbonation, drying fruity finish with lingering sweetness. Quite drinkable.