Dunkertons Cider
Cidery
in Charlton Kings,
Gloucestershire,
England 🏴
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1980
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.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle 50 cl. Pours a hazy golden with a rough white head. Tart apple notes. Body is a little watery, quite sparkling though, astringent, leathery and peely apple accents. Very astringent finish. 190110
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 50 cl. Pours a cloudy golden with tiny floating impurities and a rough off-white head. Distinctly astringent apple aroma. Medium body, sweet apple notes yet with your typical British leathery astringency. Sometimes it’s too much, but here it’s nicely balanced. 190110
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Golden with moderate fizz. Pear juice, oak and some medium dryness. Easy to drink but with not much character. Oh, for a drop of Gwatkins on draught.........
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, Church Farm Organics, Thurstaston. Poured hazy gold. Aroma was pungent ripe green apple tinged with smoky oaky notes. Flavour was ever so slightly sweet, and dried off nicely. Quite gentle carbonation. This grew on me, think I’ll go and crunch on a carrot behind the barn.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottled@Beer Hunters, Pori. Slightly hazy golden colour, no head. Aroma is apples, herbs and quite much blue cheese. Flavour is very dry wood, apples and some slight notes of blue cheese. Very dry, but at the same time rather boring.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. Golden colour, no head. Aroma is apple and blue cheese with some sulphuric notes as well as mild herbs. Flavour is apples with lots of blue cheese and wooden dryness. Quite acidic burn in the throat after drinking.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled. A hazy golden cider. The aroma is sweet apply with a slight acidity. The flavor is acidic with notes of apples and wood, as well as a light note of phenol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
[i] [b] Cask, gravity at Merton Winter Beer Festival Feb 08 [/i] [/b] Another one of my Thursday night sneaks. This was a pretty decent Perry and quite interesting to taste alongside the Olivers oak aged whisky Perry, a very pale golden colour with squashed pears on the nose, really quite tasty and a bit punchier than I expected, not quite up there with the Olivers but again this is one thatIi would happily sip again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Waitrose. Golden coloured with minimal head. Dry apple aroma with a touch of yeast. Slightly sweet flavour with a dry finish. Bland.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled at RBESG. Hazy golden. Dry and cellary, perfectly still. Sweaty, dusty appleskin flavour. Puckering sour. Interesting, but not really good.