Commix is a classic blended cider for drinking with food. This vintage is a blend of various bitter sweets & bittersharp apples: Yarlington Mill, Dove, Brown’s, Bisquet, Chisel Jersey, Sweet Coppin & Ellis Bitter. Compared to previous years this blend is a bit different, slightly more residual sugar, bit more…
A 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.…
This 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…
Dabinett 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…
Ditcheat 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…
When 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…
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.…
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…
A 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…
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…
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…
“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…
Single orchard selection, rural method, medium. Yarlington Mill, Bleinheim Orange, Harry Masters Jersey, Tremlett’s Bitter and Browns. Peppershells is a small but perfectly formed orchard on great soil in Compton Dando. This is our first vintage renting this orchard and this is a single orchard selection using the best of…
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…
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…
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…
This is the second single orchard Stoke Red Wilding made in 2020; from a beautiful old orchard in Ditcheat, with trees of similar age to the Abbot’s Leigh orchard, that their first came from. They were picked in the same week as the Abbot’s Leigh fruit, & pressed on the same…
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…
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,…
Dry, ancestral method, bittersweet cider. This blend of Yarlington Mill (85%) and Stoke Red (15%) was co-fermented in stainless steel before finishing fermentation in bottle. Extended lees ageing for 20 months gives secondary flavours from tannin breakdown and everything softens to give a cider with a velvety mouthfeel and complex tannin and aromas. Classic Yarlington…