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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6.1
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

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2010 at 15:05


6.5
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

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2010 at 14:28


5.4
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.........

Tried on 05 Aug 2009 at 15:42


6.6
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.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2009 at 15:23


5.2
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.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2009 at 01:05


7.1
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.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2009 at 01:02


5.8
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.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Mar 2008 at 17:40


6.6
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.

Tried from Cask on 19 Feb 2008 at 06:59


5.6
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.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2008 at 16:03


5.9
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.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2007 at 02:46