Little Pomona
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£14.95Each vintage of the Art of Darkness allows us to combine the best of our home orchard fruit with some sensitive barrel maturation. After a break in 2020, Art of Darkness returns in style with 2021. It’s a blend of four-fifth Ellis Bitter aged in cognac barrels for 12 months…
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£11.952021 was our first time working with Balls Bittersweet, an unusual Herefordshire variety descended from Medaille d’Or and our old friend Foxwhelp. Coming from the rolling hills of West Herefordshire, Balls Bittersweet produces a beautiful, naturally balanced cider, with great depth and good acids. Wild fermented, this spent some time…
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£13.95sparkling dry cider Bright Lights is a new cider, released from the 2021 harvest, emerging from the dark winter like a big burst of light and warmth – it’ll definitely make you smile! Continuing our experiments with non-traditional cider apples, we took a load of very ripe Bramley apples, pressed…
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£24.95Famously described by Napoleon as the champagne of England, perry really is the epitome of true English wine. This is our first traditional method perry. It brings together two French varieties of pear – Longbois and Antricotin – grown close to us on Throne farm in the village of Weobley…
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£27.50This is as unique and elegant a drink as you could hope to find. This began with the picking of damsons from a 100 year old orchard on Walls Hill, site of an ancient hill fort, near by the cidery. These lovely pieces of fruit went through carbonic maceration, in…
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£22.95traditional method cider Created over a period of six years, this brings together ciders from three different vintages, 2016, 2017 and 2019, and three different apples, Foxwhelp, Ellis Bitter and Ashton Bitter, all of which had been fermented – and in some cases – partly matured, in barrel. After blending…
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£11.00Cider is not just for summer it’s an all year joy and Disco Nouveau 2023 exists to make that point! Discovery apples are among the first to ripen in the UK and on a beautiful sunny day at the end of August we sent them to the press, the juice…
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apple & perry pear co-ferment, blended with quince & re-fermented with cryo-extracted apple juice Do it Puritan Quince 2020 began life as a co-fermentation of apples and perry pears, later blended with pure quince from barrel and bottled with a little cryo-extracted Egremont Russet, bringing about a second fermentation in bottle and a gentle sparkle. Insanely…
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A collaboration between Re:Stalk and Little Pomona. The brief given to James, Susanna and Blair was “pet-nat, grapefruit pith and texture from lees ageing” and boy did they smash it! A blend of Ellis Bitter, Dabinett, perry pears and some Egremont Russet cryo-conditioned this cider sits somewhere between their Col…
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When Martyn Goodwin-Sharman, cider legend and one quarter of the exuberant Neutral Cider Hotel podcast crew, joined us for a blending session, little did we know that he would arrive, just as we had, in the uniform of all cidermakers – red and black plaid! The three lumberjacks got to work tasting through the…
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pet nat ciderkin with hops & blackcurrants Made from the second pressing of apples with the addition of water, this is our modern interpretation of an old historic drink, ciderkin. We also like to think of it as upcycling pomace. This version of Hot Pink brings together one of our…
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Made from the second pressing of apples with the addition of water, this is our modern interpretation of an old historic drink, ciderkin. We also like to think of it as upcycling pomace. This version of Hot Pink brings together two of our favourite apples, Kingston Black from none other…
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zesty refreshment, perfect for the coming months… Made from the second pressing of perry pears with the addition of water, this is our modern interpretation of an old historic drink – perrykin – or an English version of the fashionable piquettes from France. We also like to think of it…
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pet nat ciderkin with hops & blackcurrants Made from the second pressing of Dabinett apples with the addition of water, and later refermented on the skins of freshly pressed Siegerrebe grapes, from our friends at stellar English winery, Astley Vineyard, in Worcestershire. This is our latest reprisal of an old…
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lightly sparkling, deft barrel influence Cidermakers spend a lot of time thinking about fruit and therefore harvest. This cider was borne of that. 2019 was a difficult vintage, a cool summer and worse in the autumn, with extensive rains and serious flooding. Ruthless fruit selection on our part meant we…
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From the perfect 2022 harvest, this is our first bottling of Kingston Black, farmed by our friend Robin at Hill Farm near Hereford. Kingston Black, with its natural balance of fruit, tannin, acid and sugars, is one of the few apples that can truly succeed as a single variety cider.…
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sparkling dry cider This bottle is our first serious experiment with Yarlington Mill and our first release using it as a single variety. The fruit was grown and handpicked by the team at Hill Farm, south of Hereford City, from amazing orchards planted in the 1980s. Originating in Somerset, Yarlington…
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Dry, still cider Old Man & the Bee is our annual homage to our beautiful home orchard and the wonderful fruit it gives us every year. 2020 was a fine season. We escaped early frosts, and with a long warm summer and a mild autumn we harvested balanced fruit, with…
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rare blend, barrel matured, still When legendary orchard man and good friend Rob Uren brought us a little over 600kg of White Beech, a rare apple, once prized by the old cidermakers, we were like kids at Christmas! We pressed these along with some Major, a super-rich, sweet spicy apple, and Browns, all…
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pét nat with perry pears & grapes Made from the second pressing of grapes and perry pears with the addition of water, this is our modern interpretation of an old historic drink – one we are calling perry-quette. We also like to think of it as upcycling pomace. Here we…
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fine still cider Like many cidermakers, we’ve long viewed the ubiquitous Michelin apple with suspicion. Its well behaved trees and abundant annual crops are not typical of the best cider apples. Our good friends at Ross on Wye Cider & Perry, released the first vintage of their flagship cider in…
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bottle conditioned perrykin with hops Made from the second pressing of perry pears with the addition of water, this is our modern interpretation of an old historic drink – perrykin. We also like to think of it as upcycling pomace. We brought together a mixed orchard of perry pears –…
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Perhaps the most exotic and aromatic cider we’ve ever made, Still Life with Quince is a still blend of both barrel-aged cider and quince wine. As you pop off the cap, tropical flowers and the sweet, woody scent of incense and spice and rose oil appear to fill the air.…
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Sum of the Parts is our foray into the risky business of long barrel ageing and fractional blending, based loosely on the solera systems used in sherry production. Our solera began in 2017 and contains ciders from that vintage through until 2021, exclusively either high acid or high tannin varieties,…
