Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the Food Shop in Dartington. Appearance - golden yellow, with a very gentle bubble. Nose - tart apple, apple skin and a little wood. Taste - again tart apple, but becomes sweeter in the middle section. Again, some apple and wood. Palate - tangy from the start until the finish. Medium bodied. Overall - good cider.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle from Londis Woolacombe, shared with Soph in the shade on the golf course opposite. Pours clear pale gold, medium carbonation. Fruity sweet aroma. Taste is clean, sweet with no discernible tannin. Just a simple sweet accessible cider.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle from local shop in Woolacombe, drunk on a golf course with Soph after a walk from Mortahoe. Pours clear pale gold. Aroma has sweet apple fruit. General character isn't scrumpy at all, but it is clean, light and pleasant with a gentle sweetness. Dangerously drinkable if it is 7.4%.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
At the Orchard, Bristol 2/11/2018. Clear gold in colour and pretty flat. An easy drinking cider, with plenty of apple juice, a hint of rustic character and gently dry finish. Good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Cask at the Peterborough beer Festival 2018. A pale petrol coloured pour with no head. Aroma is wood, paraffin, pear, woody pear. Flavour is composed of tart, mealy apple, salty,. Palate is semi sweet, tart, bitter wood. Mostly still.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from Scrattings. Sparkling, pale golden colour, large short-lived fizzy white foam head and aroma of sharp apple & funk. Taste is tart apple, apple skin, bittersweet with earthy funk, oak, vanilla and drying tannin. Light to medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, dry tangy tannic finish. Quite drinkable