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£12.95A complex & full flavoured bittersweet cider built around the Stable Jersey apple – a very tannic cider apple variety that is certainly too much to handle by itself! In 2021, with slightly smaller crops in their own orchards, Wilding set to exploring some interesting traditional orchards for additional fruit.…
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£16.50This wonderful combination of two famous cider varieties has returned, and this time we have a highly aromatic, sweet scented cider which has been bottled young to capture those ripe sugars, pillowy tannins and excellent vintage fruit qualities from the 2022 season. Unlike the previous iteration of this blend from…
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£11.50Dabinett 55%, Browns 30%, Chisel Jersey 15%. A very West Country style of cider, blend of Dabinett (used for its soft tannins & easy going nature) reinforced with a little Chisel Jersey for more backbone, & then paired with the lovely light, fruity acid of Browns. This blend was made…
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£11.50The 2019 version of this popular favourite is lighter and fresher than 2018’s version, partly because the Harry Masters’ Jersey was having an off year, so we have replaced it with Yarlington Mill. Yarlington Mill, Browns, Sweet Coppin and Ashton Brown Jersey come together to show off this excellent orchard.…
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£13.50Ditcheat Hill is a special orchard, close to where Beccy & Sam, the makers of Wilding, live in Somerset. As before this is a blend of Yarlington Mill (40%), Browns (40%), Ashton Brown Jersey (15%) and Sweet Coppin (5%). 2022 was very dry and extremely hot, and the fruit was…
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£13.50A blend of Harry Masters Jersey, Stoke Red, Bisquet, Yarlington Mill, Browns Apple, Dabinett, Le Bret, Dove, Egremont Russet & Sweet Coppin. Fermented in stainless steel with 25% of the total matured in old oak casks, with extended bottle maturation. The nose has beehive, flowers and orchard floor. On the…
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£14.95When Beccy & Sam took on the home orchard (Wilding Orchard) in 2018 it was very heavily skewed towards bittersweets with almost no sharps or bittersharps. In order to rebalance it to better suit natural cider making they embarked on a process of top working (grafting) in wonderful varieties such…
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£17.50
A single variety cider of Kingston Black from Burlands orchard in Compton Dando which Sam & Beccy manage. Fermented with wild yeasts in stainless steel and racked in the winter to retain natural sweetness. The hot year in 2022 produced a slight divergence from typical Kingston Black aromatics, here it’s…
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£13.50
Bone dry, still, fruity cider. We have combined some beautiful Major from our home orchard with a range of other varieties from other orchards (Red Fowhelp, Frederick, Kingston Black, Ellis Bitter, Improved Lambrook Pippin, Dove, Harry Masters Jersey). The cider is fruit forward with light body but good tannic structure.…
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£36.00
A very fine two year old Pomona A combination of freshly pressed apple juice cider eau de vie, old casks, and time. The result is about as complete a taste of orchard culture as you could ask for. Made with hand picked fruit from Wilding’s biodiverse traditional orchards. Drink after…
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£12.50A complex blended cider using fruit from our four main orchards, based around Dove, Yarlington Mill and Browns, with a host of other varieties in supporting roles. The result is light and easy to drink with a mouthwatering mineral edge which reflects the various clay and limestone geologies of all our orchards. A…
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£17.50
New Meadow is a wonderful but elusive pear – not widely planted and shy with its fruit. The delicate flesh, thin skins and late ripening make it hard to get to the press. 2022 rewarded Wilding with a super crop, enough for a small tank of single variety perry. Bottled…
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£16.50
Picked and pressed at the end of October and start of November, this perry is a blend of late ripening varieties from the Perry House Farm orchard in Chew Stoke. Based around Oldfield, with Pine, Hellens Green, White Longdon, Barnett and New Meadow in smaller roles. Racked once during the…
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£14.95
“Making Oldfield sometimes feels like a highwire act” – Beccy & Sam of Wilding have said. Because unlike most pears they work with, it is not ripe when it drops and it needs time to mature on the floor or in crates – Sam & Beccy prefer on the orchard…
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An orchard blend which shows the diversity of the very special 110 year old orchard at Perry House Farm in Chew Stoke. Co-fermented in stainless steel and racked once before bottling. Still (a slight prickle of bubbles) and medium dry, it’s ideally suited to drinking with savoury, umami rich foods…
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£45.00
Very small batch! A very short run of pear eau de vie from the exceptional 2022 vintage. The rest of the spirit from this still run went into cask but we held aside a small amount to release as Eau de Vie. Extremely delicious, drinkable and complex. 350ml. 40%.
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£13.95
From the mighty vintage of 2022 which was hot and dry, this cider has the strength and maturity of a fine oak tree. Full and intense tannins, ripe aromas of fruit and freshness from acidity. Varieties include Harry Masters Jersey, Ellis Bitter, Browns Apple and others. After beginning fermentation in…
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Rural Method Medium Sweet Fine Cider. A rich, complex, lightly sparkling full flavoured cider made with the rural method, using late harvested cider apples: Ashton Brown Jersey, Dabinett & Vilberie, & a selection of rich, fruity dessert apples. Aromas of tropical fruit & ripe apple, wood, leather, & orchard floor are…
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£14.95
A rural method, late season, cider blended around Ashton Brown Jersey that is becoming a regular blend with Sam & Beccy. The varieties selected in this cider also feature Dabinett, Vilberie, Stembridge Clusters & Foxwhelp. These are quality fruits from old orchards, handled carefully and fermented over the depths of…
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£12.95
Run Deep is a bone dry and complex blended cider. It has pronounced acidity, soft tannins, and typical bittersweet aromas, with a distinctively Somerset character. Drink with good cheddar. Varieties: Harry masters, Ellis Bitter, Stoke Red, Browns, Dabinett, Michelin, Yarlington Mill. Fermented slowly in stainless steel, with a 25% portion…
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£11.50
An orchard blend made from an array of many different and historic perry pear varieties. Ideal for being enjoyed at the table, with food and company. This perry comes from 2021, which gave a light crop of pears but the quality was excellent. The blend of eleven varieties are all…
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£18.95
Taynton Squash is a pear that captured the imagination of Sam & Beccy as soon as they started working with the pear orchard in Chew Stoke. The trees are the most magnificent in the orchard, large and healthy with great trunks, and the fruit is tiny, the size of cherries,…
