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Cider Leaf A Cider-13_Cider Leaf a 05/03/2013 10:44 Page 1 Somerset Cider & Apple Juice PPLE ORCHARDS ARE A VITAL part of the Somerset Cider Makers Somerset landscape and this map 11 West Croft Cider 17 Torre Cider Somerset will help you to discover the main John Harris — West Croft Farm, Jill Gillman — Torre Farm, Washford, Shepton Mallet Perry’s Cider Mills Brent Knoll, Highbridge, TA9 4BE. Watchet, TA23 0LA. Apple Juice 1 Cider Mill 4 farmhouse cider and apple juice Tel: 01278 760762/760259 Tel: 01984 640004 Perry Family email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Kilver St, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5ND. Aproducers who rely on those orchards. Half Dowlish Wake, Ilminster, TA19 0NY. website: www.somersetcidervinegarco.co.uk Cider on tap or bottled: Farmhouse, Medium, Dry and Sweet, Tel: 01749 334000 Charlton Tel: 01460 55195 John Harris has been making cider since 1992. He sells Janet’s Sheep Stagger & Tornado. Not just cider, but Gloucester Old website: www.sheptoncider.co.uk the fun of exploring a region is the 1 website: www.perryscider.co.uk Jungle Juice, Dry, Medium and Morgan Sweet and has won Spot Pigs and pygmy goats. Large shop selling truckles of Orchards The Shepton Mallet cider mill journey to the farm. Some working farms Cheddar cheese & Somerset Camembert, country wines, Housed in a sixteenth many awards. The Somerset Cider Vinegar Company makes Sally Bail/Duncan Small in Somerset is the most century thatched barn traditionally fermented cider vinegar (unpasteurised and Exmoor honey, jams, pickles, jellies and mustard. Apple efficient and modern cider mill this traditional and are large concerns, others small, but containing 'mother') from 100% juice at West Croft Farm. juice a blend of Cox, Bramley and Russet. Creech St Michael, Taunton, TA3 5PF. Tel: 01823 412959 in the world pressing over picturesque cider farm Open: Daily March-October 10am-5pm, November-February each has its own local distinctiveness. Open: 10am-7pm closed Wednesday, Christmas, Boxing Day, email: [email protected] 40,000 tons of locally sourced has been in business New Year and Sunday afternoons in winter. A large Wassail 10am-4pm. apples to produce over 30 since 1920, although takes place on the third Saturday after Xmas. website: www.charltonorchards.com million gallons of cider every cider has always been Many of the cider farms are now geared up 45 acres of orchard, 35 different varieties of apple, year. The senior team at the mill made in the ancient 18 Bennett’s Cider apple juice, plums, damsons, pears, soft fruit, pumpkins have over a hundred years of barn. The apples used for visitors and you will always be able to Barrington Court Viv Bennett — Chestnut Farm, Edithmead, and squash plus jams and chutneys. Fruit trees and cider making experience in cider making are from their own orchards and local 12 Burnham on Sea, TA9 4HB. bushes also available. Also orchard visits and short between them and although the farms. The art of craft cider making is still very much alive sample the produce. Almost all are open to the Cider Tel: 01278 785376 courses, tastings, talks and open days. mill uses the latest technology, and cider is stored in wooden barrels. Their cider has won public but some require you to phone first. Rachel Brewer — Barrington Court, Barrington, the traditional principles of many awards over the years and the ciders now produced near Ilminster, TA19 0NQ. Like his father Viv has won a whole string of prizes at the Open: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-5pm. Bath and West as well as at the Devon County Show. This is a cider making are the same today are of the highest quality, with a wide choice of draught Tel: 01460 241938 Saturday opening September to February only. There are plenty more smaller cider makers out M e n d i p working farm. Viv’s father Tom won over 150 prize cards in 15 as they have always been. The ciders and speciality bottled ciders including a large range email: [email protected] result is a range of well known of Single Variety Ciders. Apple juice. Free entry to the years. Viv thinks he has now caught him up… there, but you will have to hunt around for them, web: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/barrington-court North Perrott and well loved cider brands cider mills which houses a large collection of old farm H i l l s Open: Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-4pm produced to the highest wagons, machinery, tools plus a Rural Life Museum. Cider which also adds to the fun... Barrington Court has been making award-winning ciders summer, Sunday 10am-1pm winter. 2 Fruit Farm standards that the team at the mill can be sampled in the large Cider/Farm shop & Tea and apple juices since 2006, reviving the estate’s historical are justifiably very proud of. Room/Eatery which sells a wide variety of tradition. This picturesque National Trust property has 10 Jonathan Hoskyns — North Perrott Fruit Farm, Familiar ciders produced include Blackthorn, Gaymers, local foods, drinks, gifts and ciders. acres of traditional Somerset orchards consisting of over 100 19 Gold Rush Cider North Perrott, Crewkerne, TA18 7SS. different varieties of apple. Cider is made from hand-picked Olde English, Addlestones, Natch and K. Open: Weekdays 9am-5.30pm, Jim Lockyer and Chris Smoldon— Woodpecker Lodge, Tel & Fax: 01460 77090 apples, and pressed on a traditional 200-year-old cider Visits of the mill can sometimes be accommodated by Saturday/Bank Holidays email: [email protected] press. Their prize winning Dry and Medium farmhouse cider Bere, Aller, Langport, TA10 0QX. special arrangement, please call during office hours. 9.30am-4.30pm, Sunday 10am- website: www.parrettbrand.co.uk along with their apple juices are available to buy in the Tel: 07934 424797 and 01458 250166 1pm all year. www.facebook.com/farmshop restaurant and gift shop. There are also the Tudor manor email: [email protected] house and beautiful gardens to explore, along with a small website: www.sites.google.com/site/goldrushcider Family run fruit farm with farm shop, garden centre and Burrow Hill Sheppy’s E x m o o r cider exhibition detailing their cider story. We have been making cider with the family at our farm since coffee shop. Their own apples, plums and pears are 2 Open: March-October 11am-5pm daily, winter open 1988 and it is now sold as a guest cider in local pubs and can available in season and they make 30 varieties of Cider 5 Cider Ltd weekends. be bought direct from the farm. We welcome visitors and apple and pear juices under their Parrett Brand N a t i o n a l Cleeve • logo. The farm shop stocks a large range of local and Julian Temperley Abbey they will be able to give our cider a good try before they buy. David and Louisa Sheppy artisan products. Pass Vale Farm, Burrow Hill, Kingsbury Episcopi, Three Bridges, Bradford-on-Tone, Open: seven days a week, 9am-7pm. Pa r k Orchard Pig Ltd Open: seven days, 9am-5.30pm, 4.30pm Sunday. Martock, TA12 5BU. Taunton, TA4 1ER. 13 Tel: 01460 240782 Fax: 01460 249220 Give us an oink, or trot us a line Tel: 01823 461233 Fax: 01823 461712 West Bradley Orchards, West Bradley, 20 Pennard Cider email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Q u a n t o c k Quality English website: www.ciderbrandy.co.uk B r e n d o n Nr Glastonbury, BA6 8LT. Hugh Tripp — Avalon Vineyard, The Drove, website: www.sheppyscider.com Tel: 01458 851222 East Pennard, Shepton Mallet, BA4 6UA. 3 Apple Juice Burrow Hill has been a cider farm for 150 years and Sheppy’s Cider Ltd H i l l s H i l l s Tel: 01749 860393 Julian Temperley has been running it for the last 40 years. email: [email protected] Keith Goverd — The Bailiff’s Cottage, The Green, @SheppysCider email: [email protected] In 1984 he won website: www.orchardpig.co.uk Compton Dando, Pensford, Bristol, BS39 4LE. The Sheppy family runs a traditional cider website: www.pennardorganicwines.co.uk the ‘triple crown’, The Orchard Pig Tel: 01761 490624 m: 07770 937437 winning cider farm, with over 200 years of cider making @OrchardPig pennardorganicwines experience, producing a wide range of high email: [email protected] competitions in Somerset Ciders & Orchard Drinks - With Roots! It all started Proper scrumpy cider pressed by hand in straw cheese. All on quality draught and bottled ciders. Many of website: www.englishapplejuice.com Hereford, Devon in 2004, when founders Andrew & Neil were enjoying their draught, dry, medium or sweet. They also make organic Sheppy’s ciders have been winners of and Somerset. home made cider & hog roast with friends… No Porkies… mead, loads of fruit wines, stunning liqueurs, English grape Over 100 different varieties of English Apple Juice, prestigious awards over the years, and their range The cider is Orchard Pig was born out of a shared passion for great food wine and organic apple juice. cider, cider vinegar, perry and plum, pear, raspberry, includes Oak Matured Vintage, a range of single pressed from 40 and Old Spots, the original Orchard Pigs, and an accidental blackcurrant, cherry and gooseberry juice. Consultancy variety ciders, Gold Medal, traditional scrumpy and Open: 10am-6pm daily, all year round. different • discovery that home-grown apples make the best tasting work for orchards, apple juice and cider production. Muchelney Individual and group tutoring can be arranged. varieties of cider Abbey cider – A simple pleasure, best shared! Now that’s something apple and the to Snout about! Although life in our orchards is pressing for 21 The Tricky Cider Open: please phone first.
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