Having always been a fan of Cider and trying many brands over the years, I recently discovered Henry Westons and decided to give it a go. I noticed it had a slightly premium price, but considering the size of the bottle (500ml) and the fact that it is 8.2% I thought it sounded like a cider worthy of a trial.

I settled down for a movie on the home cinema and grabbed my bottle of Westons from the fridge. A bottle opener is required to open this bottle, so I opened it and poured it into a glass. The whole bottle filled a pint glass to the top. I sat down and started the film, then took the first sip of my new tipple. The first thing that struck me was the full flavour. It was very rich and it tasted delicious, ice cold. however, it was not sickly or too sweet, which was good.

I don't drink much; I've never been one to binge drink or even have multiple pints down the pub etc. so a pint of 8.2% is enough to get me a little tipsy! My beer of choice is Budweiser, and I sometimes get a box of 300ml bottles when they are on offer at the supermarket. I think they are about 4.5% or something, so one bottle of Westons is roughly the equivalent of 2 bottles of Bud, in terms of alcohol. For this reason, I would never drink more than one bottle of Westons at a time, which means it's not bad value. Conversely, if I only wanted a quick, refreshing alcoholic drink then I would probably choose to have one small bottle of Budweiser, so the Westons bottle would be too large and I'm not sure it would keep very well in the fridge, once opened.

Henry Westons is a gorgeous drink, it's very flavoursome and not too sugary, comes in a large bottle with high (compared to other ciders) alcohol content and for a premium product is not badly priced. Koppaberg is similarly-priced and is rather yummy but has a much lower alcohol content, so if you wanted to get a bit wibbly you'd need more bottles, meaning you'd be spending twice as much money, or more, as you would on Westons.

A bottle of Westons retails at around £2. I have bought it for £2.15 before, from Tesco, but the other day I saw it in Asda on offer for £1.56! And their normal price was only £1.75 I think, so I will get it from there from now on!