Yarlington Mill

Aroma in bottle has vinegar and oak, which survive in the glass alongside autumnal notes. Pours golden, with token turbidity and fizz. Fruity attack on the palate is something – bittersweet apples, oranges, and lemons. Fresh orange juice is especially apparent in flavour and texture. Spearmint sweetness, amygdalin, and stout tannins finish off, and late in the glass this delivers a quinine quality. Vinegar remains in the nose, but scarcely hits the mouth. This is very much a west country definition of medium sweet, which to my own palate is just as well, but even those expecting something sweeter won't go wrong with the simple, inoffensive, and well-delivered fruity flavours. This is an archetypal thirst-quencher and decent exponent of this apple.

Amber coloured, moderate light haziness and still. Aroma of rich apples with spirits. Flavour has plum, apricot and dried fruit. Rich and smooth.