This exceptionally strong bottle weighs in at 7.4%, and I think it suffers because of this. As is so often found, more alcohol means less flavour overall.
Thatchers are clearly trying to make this line more desirable and 'premium'; the bottle now comes with a fancy, ye olde worlde label and sepia-tinted pic of (one presumes) Mr Thatcher himself. So long as you don't know what a major company Thatchers is, this might work. However, the claim that they are 'family cider makers' made me laugh. I must also admit to being slightly bemused by the prominent advertising of this cider as '2011 vintage'. Was last year a particularly good year for apples? Would any other cider on the shelves be from another year? Questions to ponder...
In the glass this is a perfectly reasonable, lightly sparkling medium-dry cider. It's not particularly appley but easily drinkable and inoffensive. Unfortunately, that's about all I have to say on the subject. When I can comment for twice as long on the label of the bottle, rather than the contents of said bottle, then it's possibly time for the company to rethink the product.
A final observation: at this strength a single bottle represents 3.7 units and therefore, as clearly stated by the daily recommended limits printed on the label, your blogger (being unfortunate enough to be in possession of xx chromosomes) should not actually have drunk the entire contents. The things I do for you...
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