Our Cider
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Made with either a single variety or a blend of genuine cider apples, using traditional techniques.
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Unique styles and flavours that change from season to season, batch to batch.
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Sometimes chewy and tannic, sometimes smooth and woody.
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Sweet and fruity or mouth puckeringly dry.
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Never be ordinary!
John Evelyn 1620-1706
Diarist and cider advocate. |
Our Apples
- We grow genuine cider varieties. Like wine grapes, they have been selected over centuries to make quality cider.
Through selection, our forebears have shaped, our genetic inheritance. An apple variety is as much an invention of human ingenuity and toil as any building or a tome of knowledge.
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The Braidwood district has many remnant orchards, some nearly 200 years old. Each has a wealth of vulnerable apple varieties. By locating, propagating, identifying, conserving, distributing, celebrating and telling the stories of these apple varieties in our community, we hope to keep them around for future generations.
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Saving a single variety particular to our locality could successively be instrumental in preserving local songs, recipes, festive gatherings, the appearance of the landscape, and the wisdom of growing and caring for the trees. They are the building blocks of our cultural resilience.
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