Dunkertons Cider

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

Established in 1980

Contact
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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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Served hot at campervan taproom, as winter spiced. Pours murky orange brown, nose is apple, cinnamon, pie, taste is sweet, spiced, apple.

Tried from Draft on 17 Oct 2024 at 17:41


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Eko Plaza. Clear golden with sort lasting fizzy head. Sweet apple juice, apple pie, a lot of farmyard funk, quite leathery, oak, dry whisky, apricot, wite wine. It's actually quite sweet, and ligt sour and bitter. Solid medium body, sparkly carbonation and medium dry. Nice, but quite sweet.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2024 at 18:22


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Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2024 at 22:21


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Sainsbury's Berryden, Aberdeen. It pours clear pale greenish - gold with a quickly dissipating fizzy white head. The aroma is bitter - sweet, crunchy apple, apply skin, dried apple, perfumed, melon, touch of pear drops, woody, splash of apple brandy and a hint of sherbet. The taste is crisp, firmly dry, bitter - sweet, ripe sweet apple, dried apple, white sugar, melon, sweet white grape, kick of alcohol boost, touch of apple cider vinegar, fleeting acidity, dry oak and light tannin with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Errs a touch of the sweet side for my tastes, but it drinks well.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2024 at 12:51


6.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Unclear gold. Tart apple skin aroma. Dry, slightly tart, quite oaky. Good cheese cider.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jul 2024 at 23:33


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pint at Mother Kelly's Nine Elms. Pours a light hazy over an orange body. Fizzy. Bright apple, some neutral wood, a little green grape and acid. Flavor is juicy and funky, some bright acid and light wood. Well balanced and nearly dry.

Tried on 13 Apr 2024 at 09:18


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

660ml bottle. Had many times years ago, but curiously not rated. Misty yellow appearance, gentle sparkle. Quite tangy with musty fruit, desert apple notes with a nice pokey strength. High juice. Good characterful cider.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2024 at 09:53


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

I was feeling a bit guilty about enjoying this one, as it's basically a cider made more appealing by the addition of adjunct fruit and spices. Then it was important to acknowledge the sheer quantity of beer out there with fruit, or vanilla, or whatever, that basically uses these adjuncts to mask a very average beer, in many cases. Anyway, it pours a murky ditchwater colour. The carbonation is gentle. The nose is of apple strudel with cinnamon, brown sugar and baked apple notes coming together nicely. The taste keeps the promise in what is a light to medium bodied cider. Overall, no need to feel guilty about enjoying this, it's enjoyable!

Tried on 07 Jan 2024 at 17:33


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750ml bottle from Dunkertons. Murky orange golden-brown colour, some short-lived bubbles on top and aroma of apple, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, ginger. Taste is apple strudel, cinnamon, nutmeg, spice, and citric, with some mellow tannin. Medium bodied, low carbonation, mulled spiced apple finish. Quite drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Dec 2023 at 21:55


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Sainsbury's Supermarket, Salford. Golden in colour with a good slightly dry apple taste with some sweetness attached.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Sep 2023 at 15:30