Dorset Nectar Cider

Cidery in Bridport, Dorset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2006

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Strong Orchard, Pineapple Lane, Waytown, Bridport, DT6 5HZ, England
Description
Dorset Nectar artisan cider is naturally fermented from 11 varieties of West Country cider apples grown on our family run farm. The sun ripened apples are whole crushed and pressed at the orchard’s cider barn, then patiently nurtured to create a smooth, delicious cider that is really fruity in taste and bursting with flavour. We hand crafted both of our hydraulic presses, the largest using two 58 tonne rams. We press using a traditional rack and cloth method and are renovating an old twin screw 1863 press from Chard.

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

Box @ Armoury. Pours a deep hazed reddish burgundy. Light raspberry nose. Taste is sharp with pleasant raspberry and a sour tannic edge. Not bad.

Tried on 19 Aug 2018 at 22:11


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

Box @ Stable, Bristol. Pours clear gold. Aroma has medium apple fruit. Taste is high juice, tight but gentle tannins, crisp fleshy fruit, sour hints. Decent.

Tried on 07 Aug 2018 at 20:46


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

Box @ Stable, Bristol. Pours deep clear gold, aroma has medium sweet apple fruit. Taste is high-juice, soft tannins with gentle sweet fruit, a touch tart. Good real cider.

Tried on 07 Aug 2018 at 20:43


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg @ Stable, Birmingham. Pours misty gold, aroma has strong elderflower, some apple juice. Taste is strong, sweet elderflower with effervescent bubbles, high juice presence with soft apple fruit.

Tried on 30 Jul 2018 at 21:54


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

Box @ Stable, Birmingham. Pours a generally clear gold, aroma has honey, sweet apple. Taste is medium sweet, some distant honey, very light acidity, pure fruit juice. Decent.

Tried on 17 May 2018 at 20:30


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at the Peterborough beer Festival 2017. A mostly clear golden orange coloured pour with a fading white bubbles. Aroma is tangy apples, hot solvent alcohol, some sweet notes, white sugars and plastic. Flavour is composed of semi sweet pithy drying apple, woody pips, harsh finish. Palate is semi sweet and drying finish. Lowish carbonation. Ok. .

Tried from Cask on 26 Aug 2017 at 06:59


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Box @ Stable, Birmingham. Pours hazy orange. Aroma of soft, light passionfruit. Taste is smooth with faint passionfruit, minimal apple fruit. Clean and refreshing but a little light on fruit flavour.

Tried on 16 May 2017 at 05:49


6.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Gravity dispense (bag-in-box) @ NWAF 2015, National Winter Ales Festival (2015), The Roundhouse, Pride Park, Derby, Derbyshire, England, DE24 8JE. [ As Dorset Nectar Cider Medium Dry ].Unclear medium orange color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate apple, tart apples, sour apples, sweet apples, riped apples, yellow - red apples, light barnyard. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, dry, apple, sweet apples, leather. Body is medium, texture is creamy - watery, carbonation is flat. [20150213] 6-2-7-3-14

Tried on 10 Dec 2016 at 07:55


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle from Orchard Box. Deep orange-gold colour, no head and aroma of spice, apple and alittle funk. Taste is tangy, apple, fruity & woody, with barnyard, leather and some tannin. Medium bodied, low to medium carbonation, dry tart tangy finish. Quite OK.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Dec 2016 at 14:17


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

500ml bottle from Orchard Box. Pours an orange gold colour with a white foam head that dissipates away and aroma of tangy apple, barnyard. Taste is tart, apple, fruity, hay, funk, leather, some oak & vanilla and drying tannins. Medium bodied, low to medium carbonation, very dry tannic finish. Quite drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Dec 2016 at 11:29