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World Cider Awards 2018
Winners
Medium
UK's Best Sparkling Cider
Gold Medal
Friels
First Press Vintage
United Kingdom
"Light on the nose. Great taste with a honey sweetness. Easily quaffable. Well balanced without much complexity and tannins, but nice overall. "
2018 categories
World's Best Flavoured Cider
World's Best Non Sparkling Cider
World's Best Perry
World's Best Sparkling Cider
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SILVER WINNERS
Medium
Thatchers Cider
Cider Barn Dabinett
United Kingdom
BRONZE WINNERS
Medium
Thatchers Cider
Cider Barn Redstreak
United Kingdom
Australia
Sweet
Gold Medal
Sydney Brewery
Sydney Cider
Australia
"Great nose of green notes. Palate more mixed pear and apples, bitter almonds with a sweet and tangy balance. Elegant."
SILVER WINNERS
Medium
Black Devil Cider
Australia
Brazil
SILVER WINNERS
Medium
Sina
Hard Cider
Brazil
Canada
SILVER WINNERS
Medium
Thornbury
Premium Apple Cider
Canada
Finland
Medium
Gold Medal
Crafty
Apple Cider Dry
Finland
"Fruit salad on the nose. Yellow apple and honeyed notes on the palate. Balanced carbonation. Good balance. Well balanced and complex."
Ireland
Medium
Gold Medal
Orchard Pig
Truffler
Ireland
"Light aromas of eating apples. Pleasant carbonation with a dry mouthfeel. Not complex but pleasant and quaffable."
SILVER WINNERS
Medium
Orchard Pig
Charmer
Ireland
BRONZE WINNERS
Medium
Legacy Irish Cider
Ireland
Italy
Medium
Gold Medal
Hoila
Cider
Italy
"Aromatic with honey and cooked apples on the nose. Medium high with warm riper apple and apricot. Flavours follow through. Palate with sprightly acids and sparkle, apricot/peach and light astringency."
Portugal
Medium
Gold Medal
Vadia
Sidra Vadia
Portugal
"Nose of yellow ripe apples and toffee, ligth and very aromatic. Palate of cooked, warm apricot cobbler with green tang and the texture from sparkles welcome here. Acidity and sweetness in harmony iwth a long finish."
South Africa
Dry
Gold Medal
Birkenhead Brewery
Dry Apple Cider
South Africa
"Dark amberesque colour with strong honey and spicy, cooked apples on the nose. Palate of hazelnuts; high sparkle and astringency. Flavours of stewed apricots/plums coming through. Very innovative."
Switzerland
SILVER WINNERS
Medium
Cidre Crafty
Apple Hard Cider
Switzerland
United States
Sweet
Gold Medal
McKenzie's Hard Cider
Original
United States
"Golden in colour and good carbonation with pleasant sweet apple on the nose. Chewy mouthfeel and flavours of the whole apple coming through nicely. Dry clean finish."
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