Garrold (11394) reviewed Vintage Blend Cider from Prior's Tipple 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Hay Wines, Ledbury, Herefordshire. Clear, copper colour. Woody, rich, stewed dessert apple. Some sweetness, along the lines of vanilla pod. Light esters, too. Pretty complex. Smells barrel aged, almost. Taste has a dried fruit sweetness. There’s a woody, nearly sour dryness, balancing the sweet nicely. Palate is rich and smooth, with a fruity booziness. Finishes soft, dry, and fruity. Really good, and possibly made better by the fact it’s been sat, forgotten, in the cellar for a year?
Downender (11275) reviewed Perry from Prior's Tipple 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle bought at Gloucester Services on the M5 motorway. Deep gold in colour and pretty much flat. As Fin mentioned, this had plenty of medium pear fruit, with some core and skin rusticity thrown in and a gentle finish. Drinkable stuff.
minutemat (16258) reviewed Vintage Blend Cider from Prior's Tipple 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle from a beer & wine shop, Ledbury High Street. Pours a light, clear yellow with light apple aroma. Taste isn’t particularly strong and doesn’t taste 7.5%.. it’s a light, fleshy apple taste with a medium dry character and dusty tannins on the finish.
minutemat (16258) reviewed Medium Dry Cider from Prior's Tipple 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
500ml bottle from a Beer & Wine shop, Ledbury high street. Very pleasantly surprised by this one, pours a luscious golden colour with a light sparkle. Has a distinctly smoky character with oaky - almost whisky-like - woody notes, almost like this was pressed during a boozy village BBQ. Coarse tannins round things out with a dusty cider-shed dryness seeing things through. Cider with real character this. Love it.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Medium Dry Cider from Prior's Tipple 14 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Polycask @ Far From the Madding Crowd, 10-12 Friars Entry, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England OX1 2BY.Clear medium orange yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, yellow apples, tart apple. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light acidic with a average to long duration, dry, tart apple. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20111023]
fonefan (84534) reviewed Perry from Prior's Tipple 14 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Polycask @ Far From the Madding Crowd, 10-12 Friars Entry, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England OX1 2BY.
Clear medium yellow orange colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate pear, sweet pear, honey notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20111023]
Fin (18365) reviewed Perry from Prior's Tipple 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Polycask at FFTMC, Oxford with Loz, Jan, Charlotte Sun 23rd Oct 2011 More medium sweet than medium dry, very easy drinking and really smooth. This is almost squash like in the mouth, soft slightly squishy pears, simple perry with the alcohol showing ever so slightly, good stuff, goes interestingly with chilli flavoured crisps. . A7 A4 T7 P3 Ov14 3.5
Fin (18365) reviewed Medium Dry Cider from Prior's Tipple 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Polycask at FFTMC, Oxford with Loz, Jan, Charlotte Sun 23rd Oct 2011 A little earthy but with a nice warmth, the apples are not too sharp or tangy, nose is soft and rustic and with overripe apples, like apple skins warming in the sun. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Downender (11275) reviewed Medium Dry Cider from Prior's Tipple 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from the Bristol Cider Shop. Straw coloured with a slight fizz. Sweet, slightly flinty aroma, with a touch of barnyard character in the background. Flavour of baked apples, with slightly spicy fruit, a dessert apple perfumed edge and medium dry finish. Unusual and enjoyable.