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. pAroducers 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. Apple juice available at Bath farm owns 150 acres of orchard. Apart from traditional apples, we know good cider is a craft and takes time to farmers market. farmhouse cider, Julian makes two exceptional bottle mature! Company fermented sparkling ciders. The cider is matured on its Open: shop open for juices any time, Cider Monday- Steve Watkins and Alistair Brice — The Bakery, yeast for a year and then disgorged by freezing the ends of Friday 9am-5pm. Honiton Road, Churchinford, Taunton, TA3 7RF. Bradleys the bottles. This so called ‘Champagne Method’ was Tel: 01823 602782 4 Juice pioneered in Hereford in 1632 by Lord Scudamore before email: [email protected] the Civil War and had reached Montacute House in many more. Fifty-five acres of bush and traditional Miles Bradley — Box Bush Farm, Box Bush Lane, Wilkins Farmhouse website: www.trickycider.com Somerset by 1664, long before the French even claim to orchards are available for the public to walk in, including B l a c k d o w n Near Hewish, Somerset, BS24 6UA. areas for picnics and a children’s playground. Visitors can 14 have invented the method. Old cider house, huge vats, Cider Award winning traditional cider from the Blackdown Hills, Tel: 01934 822356 barrels, farm animals. Single Variety Bottle Fermented enjoy an excellent rural life museum and DVD of the also available in bottles. Sheppy’s cider maker’s year. Samples can be tasted in the H i l l s Roger Wilkins — Land's End Farm, email: [email protected] Sparkling Cider: Kingston Black and Stoke Red. Dry and Mudgley, Wedmore, BS28 4TU. Open: by appointment only. website: www.bradleysjuice.co.uk Medium Farmhouse Ciders & Cider Vinegar, Apple farm shop where cider and local produce can be bought. Cider Makers Tel: 01934 712385 www.facebook.com/BradleysJuice Juice: Russet, Cox and Bramley. Licensed tea rooms. All buildings and public areas suitable Scale: for disabled. Apple Juice Producers website: www.wilkinscider.com @BradleysJuice Open: Monday-Saturday 9am-5.30pm all year, closed 22 Ashill Cider Roger’s grandfather started the cider business in 1917. Sundays. Orchard trail & toilets. Open: Monday-Saturday 8.30am-6pm all year, Sunday M A House — Ashill Farm, Ashill, Ilminster, TA19 9NE. We specialise in producing single variety apple juice using (July and August only) 10am-4pm. 0 1 2 3 4 5 miles 10 miles Tourist Information Centre Roger took over when his grandfather died in 1969. A rare only the very best hand picked apples. Our juice is made insight into Somerset’s ciderhouse culture. There are chairs Tel: 01823 480513 email: [email protected] in small batches and pressed using traditional methods of and newspapers to pass the time of day. The free taster is production - taste the freshness of apple in a bottle. The Somerset always half a pint … good clean cider - just Dry, Medium and We pride ourselves on a full strength, full bodied traditional Thatchers Cider Parson’s Choice Open: by appointment only, please phone first. Juice is HE PHILOSOPHY of Hecks Traditional Sweet Farmhouse Cider. Roger also sells cheddar cheese. farmhouse cider produced from local apples. 3 Distillery 6 Rich’s Farmhouse 8 9 available at Somerset Farmers Markets. Company Ltd traditional farmhouse Farmhouse Cider Cider Open: Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday Communion Open: Monday-Saturday 9.00am-6.00pm and Sunday Pass Vale Farm, Burrow Hill, 7 Cider Martin Thatcher cider making owes its Chris and Andrew Hecks Jeanette and Phil Dolding 10am-1pm, Sermon optional... 10.00am-5.00pm. Kingsbury Episcopi, Martock, TA12 5BU. Myrtle Farm, Sandford, BS25 5RA. Family run 9-11 Middle Leigh, Street, BA16 0LB. Parsonage Farm, West Lyng, Taunton, TA3 5AP. Tel: 01460 240782 Fax: 01460 249220 origin not just to the 25 Tel: 01934 822862 Mill Farm, Watchfield, Nr. Highbridge, TA9 4RD. Tel: 01458 442367 Tel: 01823 490978 23 Worley’s Cider email: [email protected] Tel: 01278 783651 Fax: 01278 786651 moTnasteries but to the generations of email: [email protected] Honey Pot Farm Neil Worley — 55 Dean, email: [email protected] email: [email protected] website: www.ciderbrandy.co.uk website: www.thatcherscider.co.uk Restaurant tel: 01278 794537 small farmers who have over the website: www.hecksfarmhousecider.co.uk website: www.parsonschoicecider.co.uk Cider & Apple Juice Shepton Mallet, BA4 4SA. Somerset Cider Brandy evokes all the thatcherscidercompany Legbender Cider Shop tel: 01934 744127 The Hecks family has been making cider for six generations, Parson’s Choice is a traditional Somerset Farmhouse Cider Colin & Julie Comben — Honey Pot Farm, Tel: 01749 880016 and 07855 951718 magic and mystery of the West Country. centuries excelled at using the very @thatchers_cider website: www.richscider.co.uk since 1840. The award winning farmhouse cider is fermented made on the Somerset Levels with pure cider apple juice Fosse Way, Yeabridge, South Petherton, TA13 5LW. email: [email protected] Over the years The Somerset Cider Brandy Cider has been produced at Rich’s Cider Farm at Watchfield best cider apples from their own in wooden barrels and sold draught from the wood. They have from their own orchards. There is also a small farm shop Tel: 07971 656440 website: www.worleyscider.co.uk Co has singlehandedly masterminded Out of a Somerset farming family has emerged one of the for three generations. There have been many changes since orchards and surrounding villages. which sells apple juice, cider vinegar, jams, chutneys, email: [email protected] worleyscider the revival of Somerset’s monastic country’s most distinctive craft cider-makers. Formed in specialised in draft and bottled Single Variety Ciders and 15 Gordon Rich started pressing cider apples at Mill Farm, tankards and gift baskets. Oak barrels, plants in season. Wilcox Cider @worleyscider distilling traditions. Today their old 1904, Thatchers Cider has grown from local farmhouse Apples that they have themselves had Perry and at least a dozen different varieties of apple web site in progress, ready late Spring 2013. although essentially the production of the juice is still Compost & veg. The Cider Shop, The Bays, Cheddar, BS27 3QW. French pre-war stills, Josephine & producer, to a family-led company widely respected not juice. Their shop also sells fruit and veg, local cheddar Honey Pot Farm Cider & Apple Juice is produced on our Renowned for their passion and dedication, Worley's traditional. One of their oak vats holds 10,000 gallons of a hand in selecting, grafting and even Tel: 01934 740005 Fifi, produce copious quantities of only for its expertise in cider-making, but for cheese, chutneys, pickles, jams, marmalades, cider mugs Open: 9am-6pm Monday-Saturday, Sunday 9am-5pm all year. 5½ acre holding. We produce 4500 litres of Cider per year as Cider combine a traditional fruit-focused approach with cider. They are a family run business offering a range of email: [email protected] apple spirit which is matured in oak its beautiful orchards, its commitment to naming. Orchards, soil and climate and cider jars. sustainably as possible, integrated with our sheep and other modern techniques. Their popular ciders range from farmhouse ciders, farm pressed apple juice, local barrels in a special spirit bond. sustainability, and its firm belief in all that is website: www.wilcoxcider.com animals which graze our orchards and feed on the pomace. easy-drinking farmhouse varieties to refined, lightly cheeses, chutneys, jams and crafts. Also on the farm is the are therefore vital ingredients and Open: Summer 9am-5.30pm weekdays and Saturday, Internationally acclaimed, the great about Somerset cider. From its century- Bridge Farm Traditional cider making in the heart of the Mendips with our We also keep bees to pollinate. sparkling bottles, full of fruity flavour. Cider Press Sunday 10am-12.30pm. Winter 9am-5pm weekdays and 10 Cider Brandy can be bought as 20, old oak vats to recipes that have been passed farmhouse cider became distinctive shop at the bottom of Cheddar Gorge. We also take our cider Restaurant Saturday, Sunday 10am-12.30pm. Group tours welcome. Cider Open: Fridays March-December 11am-5pm (other times by Open: Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday 11am-2pm. 15, 10, 5 or 3 Year old, all bottled at down over the generations, Thatchers sticks in the same way that wine from around the South West doing a number of shows where we serving Coaches welcome by appointment. Nigel Stewart appointment). Please call ahead to make sure we're around. 42% abv. Added to this is the highly to what it knows to be right. Thatchers’ are known as ‘arts cider shack’. breakfasts, certain vineyards in France has Bridge Farm, East Chinnock, Yeovil, BA22 9EA. successful Kingston Black Aperitif master cider-makers craft a complete Open: summer 10am-5.30pm 7 days a week, winter 10am- lunches and at 18% and the clear but delicious range of bottled and draught ciders, from become famous. Tel: 01935 862387 5pm Thursday-Sunday. 24 26 clotted cream Lawrence’s Cider Ermie & Gertie’s Eau de vie at 40%. Recently, the fresh, vibrant and modern, to traditional, email: [email protected] teas and a The cider makers of Somerset are John Lawrence — Ridge View, Corton Denham, Ian & Mandy Sinclair — Pitney House, Pitney, Somerset Cider Brandy company won a PGI (Protected vintage and speciality, including: website: www.bridgefarmcider.co.uk museum Nr Sherborne, DT9 4LS. Langport, TA10 9AR. Geographical Indication) making them the only legal Thatchers Gold, Katy, Thatchers Rosé, marketing not just a fine drink, but a www.facebook.com/bridgefarmcider 16 Crossman’s Prime Vintage, Cox’s, Green Goblin, Pear, featuring Tel: 01963 220650 Tel: 01458 252308 distillers of Cider Brandy in Europe. The two copper stills landscape and a distinct locality Bridge Farm has been making award winning artisan cider Heritage, Traditional and Cheddar Valley. vintage cider Farmhouse Cider email: [email protected] email: [email protected] are on display at the farm. Conducted tours by for over 25 years. All the fruit is home grown or harvested Thatchers’ cider shop is open all year round. equipment. where the role of the individual craft Ben Crossman — Mayfield Farm, Hewish, website: www.ermieandgertie.com arrangement. All products available by mail order, credit locally and pressed on the farm. We produce range of fine website: www.lawrencescider.co.uk Visitors can also walk or cycle along the You can also visit their Legbender Cider Shop in Cheddar Weston super Mare, BS24 6RQ. card hotline or website. cider maker is paramount. Cider ciders, traditional still or sparkling, Pear Cider/Perry and Lawrence’s has been making traditional cider since 2003. Ermie & Gertie's make traditional cider using only Strawberry Line, a popular cycle path which Gorge, next door the famous Cheddar Gorge Cheese Co where made from pure cider apple juice, five year old Cider Brandy. The traditional still farmhouse Tel: 01934 833174 Mbl: 07770 531621 Apples are harvested by hand to ensure only the best fruit is locally grown apples. The cider is allowed to ferment Open: Monday-Saturday 9am-5.30pm all year, closed runs through several of Thatchers’ you can watch Cheddar Cheese being made and sample the cider is available from oak barrels in the farm shop. Bridge Good clean traditional farmhouse cider served from oak used. All the fruit comes from local Somerset orchards, naturally, finished in oak whisky barrels and is available Sundays. Orchard trail & toilets. orchards. range of Rich’s Ciders. pressed and matured in oak barrels Farm also presses between 8 and 10 single variety apple barrels. Dry, Medium and Sweet. Working farm with farm including my own trees, the Cider is then matured in Oak in bottles and bag-in-box. Ermie & Gertie's also make Disabled access varies. Most outlets Open: Monday-Saturday 9.00am-6.00 pm, Open: visit www.richscider.co.uk for opening times. on the farm is the true juices ranging from a sweet Egremont Russet to a delicious shop selling seasonal produce ie cheese, sausages, bacon, barrels, the influence of the Oak on Cider creates a stronger, traditional apple juice, dairy ice cream made with ; are working farms. If in doubt, please Sunday and Bank Holidays 10.00am-1.00pm. Spirit of Somerset. crisp Brown’s Apple juice. free range eggs, vegetables, potatoes, etc. deeper flavour. Guernsey milk and double cream, and fresh fruit sorbets. telephone the cider maker first. Open: seven days a week Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm, Open: Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday 10am-1pm, open Open: seven days a week 9am-5pm. Open: by prior arrangement only so please telephone or please phone for Sunday hours. all year. email in advance of your visit.
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