Orchard Vintage cider, a collaboration with River Cottage, is made from organic fruit found in our oldest orchards. The variety of apples brings tannin, tartness, aromatics, sparkle and sweetness which, when blended together, give this effervescent medium cider perfect balance and great depth of flavour. Its taste is medium, lingering…
Our River Cottage Yarlington Mill cider is a homage to the magnificent Yarlington Mill apple which combines fruit bowl flavours, zesty acidity and pleasing light tannins in a single apple. The resulting cider is medium sweet with a rich fruity taste, raisin notes and a dry finish. You might pick…
A blend of mid season October perries fashioned from perry pears grown on old standard trees. Bottled with some fermentable pear sugars remaining to give gentle conditioning in the bottle A clean, citrus driven layered pear fruitiness with a gentle fizz. Sparkling Medium Dry Perry. 750ml. 7.2%
Tom Oliver’s family majored in hop growing a generation or two ago before Tom turned his eye to cider, so a wonderful little family connection lies behind Oliver’s At The Hop, hop infused cider. His family farm in Herefordshire sits in a wonderful hop growing region; as you drive throughout…
A collaboration between Cellarman Sam & Tom Oliver. Herefordshire, where Oliver’s is based, is a region that knows good cheese, and it’s a natural combination, one well known to cider makers & dating back centuries – drinking their ciders with the local cheeses. This collaboration was born to celebrate and…
A full blooded single varietal Foxwhelp from the Broxwood Foxwhelp trees at Cuckhorn Farm, Stoke Lacy. Young, vibrant acidity with hints of strawberry on the nose. 750ml. 5.1%
Lambic beer & Cider blend. An ongoing collaboration between cider maker Tom Oliver and brewers Gen & Jonny Mills has helped shape the approach to fermentation and blending influencing both. Tom Oliver makes cider and perry in small batches, using fresh pressed cider apples and perry pears, fermented by wild…
A full blooded single varietal Foxwhelp from the Broxwood Foxwhelp trees at Parton Farm. Young, vibrant and seering acidity for all you acid fans. Dry & Still. Season 2020. 750ml. 5.1%.
Why guilty? Because listed in the ingredients you will see sugar & carbon dioxide – it’s sweetened & carbonated: this is the cider to drink at the end of the wine fair; the one for street food; to have sat in the fridge for a time most desired; because you’re having…
A collaboration with After the Harvest Brewing and Alex & Gabe Cook: using a wort of pils (80%) & wheat grist (20%) with aged Bramling X & Goldings Hops fermented by Belle Saison yeast. Co-fermented with a spontaneously fermented Perry of Blakeney Red (30%), Gin (30%), Red Longdon (30%), & Butt…
A Whitehouse Orchard blend. Pears, fermented and matured in Jamaican rum barrels. Big, rich and chewy, elderflower and stone fruit notes are punctuated by a hint of rummy sweetness and some soft chalky tannins. Very light sparkle. 750ml. 6.6%.
Whitehouse Orchard season 2020. Made from Blakeney Red and Gin Perry pears which were fermented and aged in a rum barrel. Fragrant perfume pear aroma. Fruity, juicy pear with pineapple, a bit of rum and a vanilla finish. Soft and smooth. 750ml. 6.8%.
A classic blend of late season bittersweet featuring Yarlington Mill, Dabinett, Sheep’s Nose, Michelin, and a host of small amounts of another 40 odd varietals from the Home Orchards. Keeved and bottled with some residual sweetness to condition in a beautifully full and lively way. Bottle conditioned Herefordshire cider as…
The pair of “Still” drinks was the idea of Michael Kaiser from Good Beer Hunting. It was to encapsulate the feeling of stillness and solitude that emerged during lockdown and to represent that in terms of 2 drinks that had been “in barrel” during that period. The “Still” Cider was…
The pair of “Still” drinks was the idea of Michael Kaiser from Good Beer Hunting. It was to encapsulate the feeling of stillness and solitude that emerged during lockdown and to represent that in terms of 2 drinks that had been “in barrel” during that period. “Still” Perry is a…
A Gin perry pear dominated perry, fermented and matured in old Irish whiskey casks. Bottled straight from the cask. A raw perry, unfiltered and full of boisterous character. Gooseberry and rhubarb battle aromatically with some reduction to give a full flavoured perry with gooseberry citrus and viscous pear residual sweetness…
Barrel fermented & aged cider co-fermented with partial ice cider: made with classic bittersweet & bittersharp varietals such as Yarlington Mill, Dabinett, Michelin, Catley Red, Foxwhelp, & Redstreak, from traditional Herefordshire orchards grazed by sheep & Hereford cattle. Opens up with a pop, & foamy pour that settles quickly. Golden…
This keeved cider rests on the shoulders of older trees (at least 30 years) in grazed or mown Herefordshire orchards. Tom trusts the fruit is the best for keeving, which is a technique to produce slower fermenting and potentially naturally sweet ciders. The varietals are mixed cider apples but Sheep’s…
THE SECOND BARREL ROOM SERIES: This time around we have picked some of the tastiest and potentially tastiest barrels, from all 4 of the barrel rooms. Displaying different characteristics but all are or will be, scrumptious, still and food friendly. The second barrel room series is an opportunity to find…
Oliver’s Vintage Fine Cider is a cider blended from the best barrels from the 2021 harvest. This iteration is first vintage, using the more briny, vanilla oak Irish whiskey barrels. The charring of the oak barrel, the oak itself & the acidity bring a very different character to this cider.…
Tom Oliver’s favourite bittersweet cider apple, Yarlington Mill, blended 95% with a 5% dash of Foxwhelp, to help point the cider up. Bâtonnage is the French term for stirring up the lees in the vessel where the wine or cider has been maturing. The process of whizzing up the dead…
Oliver’s Cider favourite bittersweet cider apple, Yarlington Mill 95% with a 5% dash of Foxwhelp to help point the cider up. An arrested ferment means the sweetness is all unfermented apple sugars. All Herefordshire Yarlington Mill apples, probably the best in the country. The classic Yarlington Mill floral and spicey…
Lambic beer & Cider blend It’s the fourth incarnation of the legendary experiment by cider maker Tom Oliver, & brewer Jonny Mills. They first got together in 2015, & this latest iteration of their efforts saw the wort (unfermented beer) fermented with Foxwhelp juice & cider lees (active cider yeast) in…
Sparkling Medium Dry co-ferment made in collaboration with Mills Brewing! Made from an extra strong wort, drawn from a mash of barley and wheat malts, with added cane sugar. This recipe is similar to that used for a Belgian Golden Strong Ale. It was fermented spontaneously in first-use Irish Whiskey…