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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6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle courtesy of and shared with kermis. No head. Low carbonation. cloudy golden pour. Smooth.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Sep 2014 at 12:29


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

75cl bottle from Dunkerton’s Farm Shop. Pours gold with light dusty cider barn aroma. Taste is slick golden apple juice with brown sugar and a subtle cider apple tang. Absolutely delicious and exceedingly moreish.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2014 at 14:07


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

500ml bottle drunk in the park on a sunny Spring day. Immediately starts sucking the cheeks with lots of overripe, bittersweet apples blended together. Such a great cider, definitely one of Dunkertons’ best.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2014 at 01:46


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

Bottle from Hay Wines, Ledbury, Herefordshire. Straw colour. Light haze. Fresh, bittersweet apple. A little brown sugar. Some lavender type flora. Taste is off dry. Has a light, smoky character. Soft, slightly thin palate. No booze until the finish. Tart, dry close. Decent. Unusual.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Sep 2014 at 16:02


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

Pale straw colour. Dry pears with a lot of complexities in aroma. Fine and complex taste. A bit of rauchbier in aftertaste. Complex and interesting.

Tried on 30 Jun 2014 at 12:33


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

500ml bottle. Clear yellow golden colour, short lived foamy white head and aroma of fruity apple, musty, vanilla, leather, barnyard. Taste is dry sourish apple, bittersweet, apple skins, woody oak, earthy tannin and light barnyard notes. Medium bodied, low carbonation, drying tangy tannic finish. Very drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jun 2014 at 14:12


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

500ml bottle from Dunkertons Cider Farm, Herefordshire. Pours clear gold, with a sweet fruity perry aroma. Taste is distinctive Dunkertons; fruity, exceedingly well blended and underpinned by just the right amount of tannins.. I could drink this all day long.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jun 2014 at 14:13


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle. Straw golden colour, short-lived bubbly white head and aroma of tart apple, woody oak, funk. Taste is apple, vanilla, woody, bittersweet with tannins & musty, barnyard notes. Medium bodied, low carbonation, dry earthy woody tannic finish. Quite drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jun 2014 at 14:28


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

330ml bottle as DUNKERTONS ORGANIC CIDER 6.8% from Dunkertons Cider Farm. Pours light yellow, perfectly carbonated. Crisp, fresh with green apple flesh, skins, a ripe fruitiness and slight tannins sucking the tongue. One of the best ciders in Dunkerton’s arsenal. Criminally under-rated.

Tried from Bottle on 17 May 2014 at 13:20


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

Polycask at Banbury Beer Festival, Thursday 8th May 2014 Pours hazy lemony/light gold. Nice stringy light lemony zippiness. Dry but not too dry, I forgot how much I like Dunkertons. Tart, tangy, zappy, appley, marvellous. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8

Tried from Cask on 08 May 2014 at 22:39