Dunkertons Cider

Cidery in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1980

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Dowdeswell Park, London Road, Charlton Kings, GL52 6UT, England
Description
Founded in Herefordshire.
Pressed, fermented, and bottled in Gloucestershire.

Dunkertons history reaches back to 1980 when Ivor and Susie Dunkerton made the decision to escape London and buy a small holding in Pembridge, Herefordshire. They realised that with such a small amount of land they needed to specialise in some form of agriculture and spotted that traditional cider making presented a fantastic opportunity.

In 2014 Ivor and Susie passed Dunkertons to their son Julian and his business partner Bean.

In 2016 the production business relocated to our new state of the art cidery at Dowdeswell Park, Cheltenham.

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7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at home picked up from Hereford Cider Museum. A light hazed petrol yellow coloured pour with a decent fading effervescence. Aroma is dry funky apple, bark, rubber, tangy apple curd. Flavour is composed of semi sweet apple, spicy funk, tart drying finish. Palate is tart, highish fine bubbles, tart spicy finish. Good stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2020 at 21:59

7/10
Wild festival. Clear pale golden. Woody and dry apple with some barn funk. Very dry and crispy. Pretty fly for a UK guy. Medium body with soft fizzy carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2019 at 21:47

7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Tried on 23 Nov 2019 at 20:53

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Tried on 23 Nov 2019 at 20:48

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Wild festival. Clear pale golden. Woody and dry apple with some barn funk. Very dry and crispy. Pretty fly for a UK guy. Medium body with soft fizzy carbonation.
Tried on 23 Nov 2019 at 20:47

7/10
Tried on 23 Nov 2019 at 20:46

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Sampled at Wild Festival Groningen. Bit hazy light golden with not much head. Dry flowery apple, apple peel, dry mineral funk. Light tart and bitter, very light sweet. Over light bodied, quite dry.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2019 at 20:45

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
750ml bottle from Ciderwinkel. Sparkling golden colour, foamy white head that dissipates away and aroma of mucky funk, apple. Taste is tangy apple, fruity, some tartness, juicy, sweetish, with funky notes, a caramel hint and earthy tannins. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, dry tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Oct 2019 at 18:27

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Handpull at the Volunteer, Ventnor. Orange/gold and still, still, still. Appleskin tartness to the aroma with a sharp woody and almost meaty smell. Gorgeous sweet/sour taste but the woodiness is too much and takes over the flavour. There's a hell of a lot going on here at 5% but the problems outweigh the virtues for me.
Tried on 26 Sep 2019 at 21:20

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
Bottle. Pale blonde. Peararoma with citrus and soft floral notes. Pear in the flavor with soft yeasty notes, tannines, citrus. Not too sweet.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:05