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.…
Stoke Red, for its sheer joyful vibrancy, may be our favourite bitter-sharp cider apple variety. We felt that the rural method, an old technique allowing us to retain natural sugars in the final cider, would be the best way of showcasing the beauty of the fruit and bottling it as…
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…
We’re always thrilled to be able to work with fruit from Annie and Norman at Dragon Orchard in Putley. In 2022 the Kingston Black they picked for us was of the highest quality. Great fruit needs only the simplest handling in the cidery. Spontaneous fermentation, a couple of rackings to…
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…
Natural. still. dry cider Orange cider is an infrequent but happy homage to one of our favourite things, orange wines. This 2022 vintage is organic Bisquet from veteran trees, wild fermented in tank, before a year-long elévage in neutral French oak. Peach fuzz, sweet incense and a touch of old…
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…
Egremont Russet, unoaked, still cider. They say Egremont Russet is the Chardonnay of the apple world and it’s hard to deny its vinous similarity. So much so, we’ve long joked about making an English Chablis – Chablis de Mercia in fact! And here we are, from the stunning 2022 harvest.…
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.…
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,…
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,…
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 2023, almost exclusively the historic, high acid, intensely complex variety Foxwhelp. Act 3 brings together the very…
Released seasonally in rolling small parcels, our Table Cider reflects the sheer joyous drinkability of great cider, its natural affinity with food and its ability to capture the essence of each harvest in every glass. With its juicy fruit, gentle sparkle, supple tannins and modest alcohol, Table Cider makes for…
Fine Still Cider This is the fifth edition of the Cider Sessions, our series of small batch, intriguing liquids for those that like to explore the outer limits of cider! This one is a blend of our favourite apple, Egremont Russett (70%) with Dabinett and Chisel Jersey in roughly equal…
Our cidermaker Laurence Cocking joined us in the late spring of 2022. A self-confessed Yarlington Mill addict, he joyfully tasted through the many tanks and barrels we had in the cellar of this lovely apple earlier this year. Thick cut is the result, a sumptuous, bottle conditioned, single varietal cider,…
Pet Nat Perry Cherry Hybrid The brainchild of Martin Berkeley, of Pilton Cider, three producers – Martin, Little Pomona, and Simon Day, of Once Upon A Tree – have secretly been beavering away at this co-fermentation dream. Take some of the nation’s best cherries. Share with three different cider makers,…
Three Points 2020 is a special cider, crafted with special people for their special day. We were thrilled to be asked by Adam and Caroline to craft with them a cider specially for their wedding day. And “with” really was the operative word, with the pair getting involved with every…
With this bottle, thanks to our friends at Throne Farm in Weobley, Herefordshire, and their plantings of French varieties of pears, we have fulfilled a long-held ambition to make a still, dry perry. As ever simple techniques and the magic of time have made this. Beautiful fruit – Long Bois…
Wholly riper and more luscious than its delicate, crystalline 2021 predecessor, the fruit this time around is a spectrum of yellow – mango, peach and pineapple – siting within a fabulously long and textured liquid. With a hint of ripe tannin, a touch of sweetness and balance, poised acidity, this…
Tiny Dancer is the happy result of letting flying cidermaker and Neutral Cider Hotel podcast host Martyn Goodwin-Sharman, aka @cidershit on the socials, loose amongst our barrels – all 140 of them! Fortunately he has a very good nose for piecing together interesting blends and once again he hasn’t let…
To Boldly Go opens a new frontier in winemaking – or do we mean perry making? Our craziest idea yet has brought together Bacchus grapes, sourced by our lovely friend Ingrid from Dunleavy Vineyards, with mid-season Herefordshire perry pears – Green Horse and Hendre Huffcap. Throw in carbonic maceration and…
A home for our experiments in wine- and cidermaking, this is the second iteration of To Boldly Go! We brought three fruits together this time – sour Keleris cherries, perry pears and Discovery apples, all locally sourced. The cherries went through a four-week carbonic maceration, a process that deepens colour…
This edition of To Boldly Go broadens our horizons of perry making – or do we mean winemaking? Bringing together two grape varieties, Solaris and Seyval Blanc, with two pear varieties, Longbois and Antricotin, in a roughly equal blend for a wild co-fermentation before being bottle conditioned and hand disgorged,…
🎉 Little Pomona & Burum Collective collaboration 🎉 Taking advantage of the harvest internship which Burum’s co-founder, Helen Anne Smith, spent with us in 2021, we decided to make some ciders together. In documenting the process, in words, images and video, the Burum team have created a fascinating addition to…