“Gold is a crisp, refreshing cider with a smooth appley taste and bright sparkle”, it says on the bottle.

Thatchers Gold, from Somerset, is labelled as a medium dry cider and, whilst it does everything it says on the bottle (see above) I think maybe it’s just not my cup of tea (or cider).

In fact the gold colour is just about the best thing with the extremely fizzy and crisp nature of the juice inside making it taste more like a glass of apple Britvic 55 then a 5.3% glass of cider.

Name: Thatchers Gold, (5.3%)
Label: 1/5
Looks: 3/5
Flavour: 2/5
Texture: 1/5
Total: 7/20

Here’s the league table of full results so far.