Midford with Sparkle unrefined

The pour is a lightly carbonated clear yellow. The aroma is phenolic apple. The taste is a semi-dry sightly bitter apple. The mouthfeel is medium bodied. The finish is smooth lightly effervescence and astringent. It has a great balance of bitterness, astringency, and acid with a lot of apple flavors.

Hazey gold colour cider, fruity smell rather than funky. Fairly sweet in the nose and taste, a little sharp bitterness at the end to make it very refreshing.

Slightly cloudy with a smooth taste but quite a tart funky aftertaste. Mild fruit taste with a hint of apple crumble flavour.

What a nose on this! Love it. I had a proper good sniff. And then sniffed some more. And again, for luck! The aroma has orange peel, vanilla, brown sugar notes and nougat. Bloody lovely. The taste? Even better. I love it. I love the haze, the stillness of it. Everything so much character. A really naturally tasting cider and I suppose you’d expect this with the label telling you it’s ‘unrefined’. It swells around the mouth as well with apple flavour and punch. It’s medium bodied and lingers for a while with a very subtle and sweet aftertaste - when initially it’s medium dry and mildly acidic. This would go well with a really strong and good quality cheddar. I wish I’d been patient enough to keep some in the glass, but I couldn’t and just kept on sipping! The colour is a golden haze and looks like a ‘proper no nonsense’ cider. And it is. It’s also extremely lightly carbonated and purely from pressed apples, so no crap in here - just good ol’ honest stuff from the farm in Milford, near Bath. At 5.9 % it’s packs a bit of a kick but you need that from a cider if it’s to have a decent taste quality to it. Once again, Somerset, for me, proves ro be king of the cider counties (despite me living in Worcestershire!). I don’t often give a 5/5, but this one just sailed through the orchard and right into my good books. Can’t wait to try the other ciders in their range. Superb, despite it being £3.75 for a 500ml bottle. (Bought in the Independent Spirit of Bath shop in Bath city centre. Grumpy bugger with a beard working in there on a Sunday morning. Didn’t seem interested at all in anyone purchasing cider. Maybe he was hungover? I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt).

Strong apple on the nose. Good flavour. Medium tannins.