A selection of bottles that will lift the spirits of anyone who felt they missed out on The Bristol Cider Salon this year, or simply wants a unique bottles to sample, from some exciting new makers! 

From the southern coast in Hampshire, Tim at Charlie Herring make ciders very much influenced by the very vines on their estate. Along the coast in Cornwall, the young duo that make up Ripe cider are impressively showing what local Cornish apples can do. Then in the midlands Artistraw, in west Herefordshire, & IVOR, in Worcestershire, both source apples from old traditional orchards, hand picking & honing their craft.  Then up to Scotland we turn, with Seidear, in Aberdeenshire, using local apples from a National Trust site orchard, & some fascinating methods. 

This selection contains 6 unique bottles (selection of 3 is containing the bottles with an *)

Ripe: St Cadix - Bottle conditioned dry cider. Abv 7.5% * 

Artistraw: Dark side of the shrew - Still and medium cider. Abv 5.7%

Charlie Herring: Perfect Strangers 2019 - still cider, fermented on grape skins & matured on oak for 24 months. Abv 7.5% * 

Seidear: Green Apples - Traditional Method culinary apple cider. Abv 6.9%

IVOR: Late - Dry, late harvest, pet nat. Abv 6.5%  &

Early - Cider & perry blend naturally ferment, still and dry. Abv 5.5% * 

Selection of 12 bottles is also available including all of the above plus bottles of Artistraw's Beltan - Perlant & Duffryn, Ripe's Trelowia (Ex chardonnay oak fermented pet nat), plus a bottle of Little Pomona's Hard Rain Hot Pink Ciderkin, & Pilton's Three Cherries (a barrel-fermented cherry & crushed lime co-ferment with new season keeved cider) & In Touch 3 (juice sat on grape skins for 3 weeks before fermentation, then keeved cider blended in.