About
Cider apples come in a wonderful array with hundreds of shapes, colours and sizes. Each variety brings its own distinct character to cider. If you respect the natural alchemy of cider-making, allowing enough time for the flavour notes to slowly reveal themselves, we believe that each cider apple has a unique song to sing.
Making cider from fresh juice, there is one production each year, which starts when the fruit is harvested in the autumn. We are 100% committed to this juice and have just one opportunity to make a vintage of delectable ciders and perries for the following year.
We add winemakers' yeast to the fresh juice and it is stored in the barn where it slowly ferments. You can hear it bubbling away, slower and quieter when the temperature drops in deepest winter.
As the first blossom is finally appearing on the apple trees, the cider in the barn is racked off into a new vessel for a secondary fermentation. This last stage gives smoothness and balance to the cider, by which the full complexity of flavour can shine through.
Making cider from fresh juice, there is one production each year, which starts when the fruit is harvested in the autumn. We are 100% committed to this juice and have just one opportunity to make a vintage of delectable ciders and perries for the following year.
We add winemakers' yeast to the fresh juice and it is stored in the barn where it slowly ferments. You can hear it bubbling away, slower and quieter when the temperature drops in deepest winter.
As the first blossom is finally appearing on the apple trees, the cider in the barn is racked off into a new vessel for a secondary fermentation. This last stage gives smoothness and balance to the cider, by which the full complexity of flavour can shine through.
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from Bottle & Barrel, Aberystwyth. Shared with Soph in the company of Fly Skywalker. Clear pale gold. Familiarly sweet perry pear aroma. Oily on the palate, clean and gently sweet overall with good blakeney red notes shining through. Decent simple perry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2020
at 15:08
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
330ml bottle from Wynyard Hall Park. Reddish orangey-amber colour, short-lived white foam head and aroma of raspberry, jammy. Taste is sweet, juicy apple with raspberry flavour and some tartness. Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, sweet raspberry finish. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2019
at 21:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle from Crafty Nectar. 900th cider rating. Orange gold colour, short-lived fizzy white foam head and aroma of mellow apple, funk, tannin. Taste is orchardy, apple, sweet, caramel, fudge, with light funk and earthy tannin. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft to medium carbonation, semi-dry tannic finish. Very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2018
at 18:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml bottle. Golden colour, short-lived white foam head and fruity apple & rhubarb aroma. Taste is sweetish, some tartness, musty ripe apple with rhubarb and hint of funk. Slick mouthfeel, light to medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, dry tart rhubarby finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2018
at 15:40
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Gravity dispense (bag-in-box) @ GBBF 2016, [ Great British Beer Festival 2016 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Apple County Brown Snout (3) ].ABV: 7.0%. Hazy matt medium orange colour with a fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, sweet apples, scrumpy apples, apple pie, caramelized apples. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate acidic with a average duration, tart apple, caramelized apple, apple pie, medium dry. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. [20160812] 7-2-7-3-14
Tried
on 24 Apr 2018
at 17:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Beer Revolution. Golden colour, white foam head that dissipates away and aroma of musty apple & barnyard funk. Taste is fruity, apple, bittersweet, with woody oak, vanilla and mucky barnyard, funky. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, medium carbonation, semi-dry astringent tannic finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2018
at 18:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask @ Southampton Arms, Gospel Oak NW5. Pours a hazy golden pale orange color with a small white head. Has a fruity spicy apple aroma. Fruity spicy fry apple flavor. Has a fruity spicy dry apple finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Jan 2018
at 06:04
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Iechyd Da, Caernarfon. Pours clear golden with no head. Aromas of dry, tart apples, apple skin. Taste is dry, tart apple. Dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2017
at 11:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle from Stori, Bala. Pours a deep red, pinkish white head. Aroma of raspberry pips, apple fruit. Taste is fairly heavy on the raspberries, moderately sweet although a little artificial. Some apple juice coming through but it’s mostly about the raspberry syrup. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2017
at 15:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle from Stori, Bala. Pours a generally clear red. Aroma of red apple, soft rhubarb. Taste is light, smooth and good integration of rhubarb with the apple fruit. Expected the rhubarb to be quite subtle but it makes its presence known. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2017
at 15:46