Cider Bouche Brut de Normandie

Heavy caramel and sweetness. Some tannin, but overwhelmed by the sweetness.

Reading the earlier reviews and comparing them, and also comparing to my own tasting, there seems to be great variation between the different vintages. That might well be a property of the cultivar of apples used by this maker - I'm not deep enough into research that I can truly comment on this beyond a bit of speculation. I did find that it has that caramel aroma which has been reported by others, but very light tannin, and definitely not overwhelmed by sweetness, as timforeman reports before me. I will agree with Hillary that is incredibly drinkable. It's more moderately sparkling than lightly sparking (compare BushWalker's review), and I feel the nose is indeed yeasty but not to the point that it drowns out any fruit aroma, although the fruitiness is not very pronounced - especially not on the palate. It does lack depth though, that we can agree on. For the price point (70 DKK ~8 GBP or ~10 USD, currently) it's fair, not any great value but I also don't feel ripped off. I think I will stick to more expensive ciders for the foreseeable future.

The bottle I had has a caramel aroma. It is a perfect balance of a sweet caramel-apple start morphing into a dry finish. There wasn’t a funky flavor like many French ciders. It’s incredibly drinkable with a low ABV. Many local winemakers were buying it by the case from the store we visited so we had to buy a bottle; it did not disappoint!

330ml bottle. Yeasty nose which drowns out any fruit aroma. Lightly sparkling, but tastes more like a still cider. Musty, sour, and dry, but lacking depth. It is drinkable, but not terribly impressed.