A new addition to our Makers Selection: Brännland Ice Ciders now available on our online shop!

Looking to order some fine cider for Christmas?

You can buy single bottles, full cases, and mixed case selections direct from us with free deliver included on all orders. 

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Our Summer Tasting has arrived!

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The final stop on our tour was the main tasting with lunch! Each maker presented a bottle of their creating and told us those enriching details about its making. Where it comes from, how it is made, what varieties are used, and their thoughts as they went about crafting it.

While at Gregg’s Pit, we were privileged to taste some of the latest vintage direct from the tanks. We tasted a beautiful dry perry that won 1st prize at the Putley trials just the week before. As well as a keeved cider - a blend of Yarlington Mill & Dabinett cider apples - that was about a week away from going in the bottle. Later in the day we then tried a bottle of the previous vintage of this same cider. After entering the bottle it becomes sparkling, and with it’s slight retained sweetness and moussy texture, it is a truly beautiful cider. Rich, sumptuous and so wonderfully full of life.

Our third stop on the trip was to Gregg’s Pit in Much Marcle, Herefordshire. Where James Marsden, the maker at Gregg’s Pit, took us on a tour of his unique orchards. The cider apple trees were in bloom and coated in white and pink blossom. Among his trees he even has a native variety, the Gregg’s Pit perry pear, and we gazed upon the mother tree of the variety - an over 200 old giant of a tree some 4 stories tall, that was the first to exist of its kind. It was a wildling, and unlike its descendents it has no graft mark.