Pastry, pastry, pastry – have I lost my sense of taste today? Or are these another fine example of a tasteless pie? Tesco Deep Filled pies are only a little bit less tasteless but almost half the price. Nice tree detail on the case, but a bit anaemic compared with the photo on the packaging.
6 luxury, deep filled mince pies. All butter shortcrust pastry filled with deliciously fruity mincemeat with vine fruits, glacé cherries, brandy and portA fairly good pie. Its flavour came in waves, good, strange, nice, dry, porty. It didn’t offend me but it also refused to invite me in to taste town. Great look on the outside but another cavernous inside.
Appearing quite sizable on first sight but on first bite revealing a mince meat void. Pastry looked a little pale but on the whole a good standard mince pie with nice pastry and filling.
First impressions of this luxury mince ‘tart’ were poor. Upon opening the box I was greeted with what can only be described as a awful whiskey scent cloud. However after the smell had dispersed the taste and texture was not that disappointing, on reflection a fairly good mince pie with substantial filling.
A lack of Christmas looks, a lack of substantial filling but yet a surprisingly enjoyable taste from this all butter pie.
I enjoyed the ratio of pastry to filling. I felt that each bite was never heavily populated by mince mixture or butter rich short crust.