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Drinks Producers, Tours & Experiences DRINKTOUR CIDER MAKERS, DISTILLERIES, VINEYARDS & MORE YOUR GUIDE TO Drinks Producers, Tours & Experiences AROUND HEREFORDSHIRE, THE MARCHES & THE WYE VALLEY gin vodka cider perry wine cassis ‘Cheers!’ from Herefordshire tours & tastings experiences meet the makers 1 2 3 Welcome to this exciting guide to tipple and tour your way around Herefordshire’s new generation of drinks producers, and not forgetting the artisan cidermakers that the county is famous for. Meet the fascinating makers and discover hire a coach or minibus. Remember, if you what inspired them to start their businesses, all want to taste, you will at least need a taxi. as well as marveling at how they make their craft products, sometimes with a On Foot, by Motor-vehicle, by Bicycle hands-on experience to make your own. All the producers featured are in beautiful rural parts of Herefordshire and its borders. Using the Map Part of the pleasure of visiting them is also We’ve plotted all the producers featured the picturesque route to get there. in this book on the handy map at the For walkers incorporating a local producer back. Just check the grid reference for on your hike is a real treat, even if it’s general geography and their full contact simply a great village pub like The Crown details are listed alongside the map. Inn at Woolhope. You’ll find lots of Many locations offer tours and tastings, footpaths through new and ancient some just have onsite shops and some orchards and countryside, lit up with products you’ll find at regional stockists fragrant blossom trees and hedgerows or you can buy direct online. See details from March-May and bowing with fruit in their featured adverts. If you're making September–November (though be a day of it, or longer, add in wonderful mindful of harvesting in the autumn). nearby foodie stops, attractions and Similarly cycling or driving the country accommodation plotted on the duplicate lanes and B-Roads between producers map in the front of this book. (please don’t drink and drive/cycle), taking in an attraction or a lunch stop is a Groups and Day Trips wonderfully scenic way to spend a day or For hen and stag parties, family longer. Cross-reference using our front get-togethers, social groups or a holiday map, which has all destinations on it. activity, you might want to give everyone a chance to taste and not drive during Photos 1 Chase Distillery 2 Morris Dancers your producer experience – so why not 3 Hopbine 4 Apple Harvest at Westons 82 The ULTIMATE Guide to Herefordshire, The Wye Valley & The Marches A Bit About Cider... Herefordshire’s cider heritage goes back centuries, when in the 15C it is even said that babies were bathed in cider as it was said to be cleaner than the water! While fruit trees grew well before the amongst others, their famous Stowford Romans, it was they who first recorded Press. They too do wonderful tours, with a drinks made from fermented apples and restaurant, café and cider shop on site. pears, then during the 18C it was usual to pay part of a farm labourer’s wages in Did you know? cider, with an increased allocation during haymaking and harvest. Herefordshire produces more than 50% of the UK’s cider. Viscount Scudamore (the Scudamore family still reside at Kentchurch Court in One ton of apples will make approx. the Golden Valley) brought back the Red 580 litres of cider Streak apple variety from Normandy in the 17C, improving English stocks and cider rapidly became the national drink. Although it is a similar process and is Of course it will not have been the refined included in the same harvest, cider nectar we know today, but it’s said that at made from pears cannot legitimately be one point there were more cider houses called cider, it is called Perry. than beer houses (pubs) in the country. There are said to be around 100 artisan By the 1900s Bulmers was operating the cider producers in Herefordshire. largest apple-pressing mill in the world and still does (although it is now owned When you toast with a drink of cider by Heineken), and we all know their iconic here, you don’t exclaim ‘Cheers’, you brands like Strongbow, Woodpecker and shout ‘Wassail!’ Scrumpy Jack. The original site in Hereford City is now the country’s only dedicated What does Wassail mean? Cider Museum and well worth a visit. Turn to P94 and discover how to take Another cider giant, Westons, has its family part in this bawdy tradition every home and plant near Ledbury, producing, January. 4 eatsleepliveherefordshire.co.uk 83 From Gate to Glass Herefordshire turns its hops into beer, grapes into wine, blackcurrants into cassis and cordial, even potatoes into gin and vodka, and of course, most famously, apples into cider. Let’s learn some more… Hops biodegrades and is compostable. Herefordshire has been prime hop Crisps with a conscience, we love them. growing country for over 300 years and originally whole families would move to Blackcurrants, Raspberries, Cherries... work and live on the hundreds of acres of Did you know that Herefordshire has its hop yards. However, in the 1800s, along very own British Cassis made on their with the rest of the country, British hops blackcurrant plantation and the same suffered disease and competition from local White Heron Drinks company also cheaper imports and the land was given makes its own chic Frambroise from their over to more profitable crops. Now the estate raspberries. main region is to the west around When it comes to botanicals (those Bromyard and, with the rennaisance in amazing flavour combinations that many micro-breweries, hop yards are enjoying spirits have) Herefordshire producers use an expansion, though of course picking is their farmland, orchards and even very much more automated nowadays. hedgerows to the max. You can buy your own fresh decorative Cherries, elderflower, strawberries, hop garlands from The Hop Pocket rosemary and other herbs, and many Shopping Village (see P40 of this book), more sweet and fragrant additions are which also has an amazing Hop Museum picked, pressed and dried to give their with stories from their own farm. products their own unique flavours. Visit them and see how it’s done. Potatoes Gin and Vodka can be made from all sorts Grape Expectations of different grains and products, and that Herefordshire is probably at one of the remarkably includes potatoes. Potatoes most northern limitation points of the are the basis of Chase Distillery's gins and country for successful grape growing. vodkas, grown on their own Herefordshire You’ll find properties with a small number farm, which is irrigated from their own of grape vines for their own consumption borehole and then the brews are created (just one grape can yield you 3 bottles of in their fascinating on-site distillery. This wine in a good harvest), but to have a rounded and hyper-local process is what profitable business even just selling makes theirs a truly single-estate product. direct to the consumer, you’ll need at William Chase himself was the founder least 5 acres of plants. Learn about the of Tyrrells Crisps using those very same grape varieties, how to grow them and potato fields, and now another brilliant production tips when you visit beautiful potato crisp has been created in the and award-winning vineyard Wythall county by two other entrepreneurial Estate and also lovely Frome Valley farmers; Ingeniously, the packaging of Vineyards. Perhaps you’ll turn your Two Farmers Crisps tasty range of passion for Pinot into a new hobby. crunchiness is 100% plastic free, Photos 1 British Cassis Tour 2 Frome Valley Vineyard 3 Black Mountain Botanicals 4 Chase Distillery Tour 5 Beer Garden at the Crown Inn 6 Hop Growers The Pudges of The Hop Pocket 7 Gin-making experience at Silver Circle Distillery 8 Colcombe House Cider 9 Cider tour at Orgasmic Cider 10 Two Farmers Crisps 11 Cider Tasting at Ty Gwyn 12 Hereford Cider Museum 13 Tom Oliver's Cider tour 14 Matt Slocombe, landlord the Crown Inn 15 Penrhos Spirits 16 Chase potato vodka 17 Wythall Estate Vineyard tour 18 A Wassail 84 The ULTIMATE Guide to Herefordshire, The Wye Valley & The Marches 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 eatsleepliveherefordshire.co.uk 85 MAP REF E7 Visit Us Chase Distilery Tours Visit our 昀eld to bottle distillery, nestled deep in the wonderful Herefordshire countryside, where our expert tour guides will take you through the secrets and skills that go into making our award-winning range of gin and vodka. You’ll discover 昀rst-hand the traditional methods of mashing, fermenting and distilling of our 昀eld to bottle spirits, which all takes place right here on our Herefordshire farm. You’ll also enjoy some delicious samples in a tutored tasting session and the chance to purchase a bottle from our shop. Visit www.chasedistillery.co.uk/tours To bk or call 01432 820455 Chase Distillery, Rosemaund Farm, Preston Wynne, Hereford, HR1 3PG. SIP DRINK TOUR HEREFORDSHIRE GENUINELY GOOD GIN hand made in herefordshire MAP REF H2 AWARD WINNING HEREFORDSHIRE GIN DISTILLERY TOURS I GIN MAKING WORKSHOPS TASTING SESSIONS I ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE ONLY AVAILABLE IN PLACES WE KNOW AND LOVE 01981 510 379 Black Mountain Distillery Michaelchurch Escley | HR2 0JW www.blackmountainsbotanicals.co.uk MAP REF E4 HAVEN havendistillery.co.uk DISTILLERY DILWYN, HEREFORDSHIRE, HR4 8JF ADVENTURES Hand crafed Gin IN CRAFT SPIRITS Liqueurs made in & COCKTAILS Herefordshire using locally sourced Fruit and Vegetables steeped in British Gin.
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