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£8.95In October 2020 we experimented by pressing three barrels of Ashton Bitter each co-fermented with a different sharp apple variety. This trio showcases the importance of apple choices; how even an apple as powerful and astringent as Ashton Bitter will perform different dances with different partners. Each bottle is similar…
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£11.00Two classic bittersweet apples meet in one glorious oak barrel. The resulting cider is massive – bursting at the seams with flavour, tannic potency, and Ross-on-Wye character. ABJ & Dabinett are iconic varieties; and working together in harmony here they layer their flavours in all their forms. Aromas of dried…
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£8.50Cider is meant to be shared with friends, and so it’s not a surprise when the best ciders are the ones you make with their help. Nicky Kong, founder of the Manchester Cider Club and The Cat in the Glass bottle shop, with our dear friends Cath & Dick went…
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£3.60For more than 100 years, British orchardists have been growing this French variety of apple, which we knew as ‘Michelin.’ But now the truth is out! DNA fingerprinting reveals that this apple is in fact the variety ‘Bisquet!’ And ‘Michelin’ is a different, distinct variety. How curious! This apple is…
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£6.95Can a drink be a window? This is a single variety bittersweet cider, matured in an oak cask, aged patiently, and bottled when it was ready. Yet it is also a campfire of burning peat, it is the caramelized honey on the joint of pork, it is the singular expression…
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£11.00Blakeney Red is one of the most popular pear varieties in the Three Counties. This wonderful fruit has been celebrated for centuries for its full bodied flavour. This bottle showcases the distinct 2022 vintage – a year where we saw more structure in our drinks and bolder tannins. This edition…
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£3.95Hailing from Gloucestershire, Brandy Pear is a rather is a rather unusual variety to find as it characteristically produces smaller trees and so was quickly and aggressively grubbed out when it became less popular. The cause of its lapse in popularity is a mystery as it produces a rather delicious,…
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Bridgewell is the name of our small ‘mother’ orchard of new varieties, planted ten years ago. A number of new apple varieties that we now adore grow there – Northwood, Improved Lambrook Pippin, Gloucestershire Underleaf, Porter’s Perfection – alongside old favourites, such as Chisel Jersey and Bulmers Norman. This cider…
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In 2014 we grafted a row of Brown Snout & Chisel Jersey trees; two historic bittersweet varieties full of character. Their first crop, in 2019, was fermented in an oak cask, and produced a powerful, chocolatey, delicious cider. But all that tannin needs time; so we let it rest until…
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Brown Snout is a beloved Herefordshire bittersweet variety, but the orchard we used to buy apples from was grubbed up in 2017. Since then we have searched for a new supply fruitlessly! Finally in 2020, thanks to a tip-off from Pat of Jolter Press, eight of us spent a drizzly…
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One of the most important cider apples taken in a new direction by the simple act of fermentation in an oak cask. A practice used by British cidermakers for hundreds of years; a tool to aid in the expression of flavour and development of tannin. A smooth, full bodied bittersweet…
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Butt is a wonderful pear which ripens late in the season. Hard as rock until just when it ripens, this bottle is actually a blend of Butt grown on Broome Farm and on Carswell Farm. The dual sourcing of fruit adds complexity to the single variety – showcasing the full…
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£9.00Foxwhelp is back. An early season cider apple that has been grown in Herefordshire for four hundred years. It is iconic, no apple is more recognisable instantly in the glass, through it’s strawberry-come-raspberry aroma or it’s lip smacking acidity. 2020 was an off year for our trees, meaning they produced…
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Our prizewinning Foxwhelp at this year’s International Cider Competition at the Museum of Cider – a Foxwhelp like no other we have made before. A remarkable Foxwhelp – the OG on this pressing started at 1.068, meaning this is made from apples with about 30% more sugar than in a…
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Cherry Pearmain is a curious apple; recorded in 1884 as being a ‘very old’ variety but with ‘no known history.’ We grafted this apple as one of our ‘2040 Project,’ aiming to introduce 64 new varieties to the farm by 2040. To our delight, the row of Cherry Pearmain trees…
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A rare cider. The 2022 harvest produced such spectacular and exciting fruit that when a beautiful oak cask arrived on the farm to be filled in early November, we were hopeful we could make something special. A blend of Dabinett and Kingston Black apples has created a cider bursting with…
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Dabinett is the most important cider apple in Britain, widely planted for over two centuries. It is a vintage bittersweet with all the character that makes traditional English cider: tannin, complexity and body. This batch is our first main in stainless steel and the result is a very fruit forward…
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Dabinett is the most important cider apple. It grows well, it fruits reliably, and it produces an apple so full of flavour that it will always make a great cider – and the best part is how versatile that flavour is. Dabinett compliments everything. In this bottle, Dabinett has been…
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Bitter orange marmalade. Except it’s made from apples, there’s no sugar in it, and it’s a boozy treat. Dabinett, the finest and most loved cider apple, presented from the most outstanding vintage for cider production in over a decade, matured half in oak and half in a neutral container, is…
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It is impossible to go wrong with single variety Dabinett. One of the truly great cider apples: bags of flavour, long ripening window, loves fermenting in barrels. This is a blend of two parts 2019 cider, which fermented in neutral and matured in oak, and one part 2020 cider which…
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A historic variety dating from the end of 1600s, it is a light bittersharp that produces rather small apples, taking a long time to handpick! However it seems we have been rewarded as we have a cider with a delicious strawberry and raspberry flavour, light in body and easy to…
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Dymock Red is a pear rather richer in history than in flavour! It seems to have been propagated at The White House in Dymock, the birthplace of John Kyrle, Man of Ross, as well as being widely grown by the Whittingtons – yes, Dick Whittington’s family. It is a gentle…
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Our Ellis Bitter (82%) and Foxwhelp (18%) apples grow side-by-side in Hangman’s orchard, on a steep, south facing hillside. They ripen at the same time, and thus we often choose to blend them together. These are powerful apples, meaning that the real key to this cider is timing. Fermenting in…
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The biggest Flakey Bark yet. In the words of the world’s best perry writer, Adam Wells, Flakey Bark ‘insists itself upon you’, and a more apt description of this magnificent pear there is not. A thunderous flavour – full of glorious syrup and ripe pear, leading into complex, punchy, astringent…
