Somerset Cider

The new iteration of one of Wilding's favourite ciders, the single orchard selection Ditcheat Hill. As before this is a blend of Yarlington Mill (40%), Browns (40%), Ashton Brown Jersey (15%) and Sweet Coppin (5%). 2022 was very dry and extremely hot,...

Handpicked apples from both new and traditional orchards. Keeved and then disgorged to produce a naturally sweetened sparkling fine cider. Clear and fruity, with soft tannins. Winner of best in class for keeved at the British cider championships. The...

Made from a blend of apples from new and old traditional orchards. Hand picked fruit from late in the season have been keeved and left in the barrel a little longer than Rawlins sweeter keeved bottles to allow it to ferment to a medium dry/medium dry,...

Single variety cider made from the classic Somerset bittersweet cider apple discovered by William Dabinett of Somerset, this is one of the most popular varieties of cider apple, producing a consistently high quality and rounded cider. Hecks Dabinett is...

A single variety, bottle conditioned perry in a very limited run. An early ripening pear, Thorn is harvested in early September. The perry produced from this single variety, has a very crisp, dry flavour. Lightly fizzy. The Hecks family have been making...

A single variety, bottle conditioned perry in a very limited run. This is dry, with an element of sharpness. with a light fizz. The Hecks family have been making traditional farmhouse cider in Somerset for six generations, since 1841. In 1896, they...

A single variety, bottle conditioned cider in a very limited run. This is a very dry cider, crisp sharp and with noticeable astringency. The Hecks family have been making traditional farmhouse cider in Somerset for six generations, since 1841. In 1896,...

Bone dry, tannic single orchard cider. In 2021, with slightly smaller crops in Wilding's orchards, they explored interesting traditional orchards for additional fruit. Cooth orchard is certainly a curiosity - an old farm orchard which has outlived the...

Medium dry, still, rural method cider. Dabinett (55%) Browns (30%) and Chisel Jersey (15%). This is well structured with soft tannins and a full body, well balanced with just a little bit of residual sugar and ideal to drink with rich savory food - hard...

Medium dry, still Perry to drink with food. This is an orchard blend of eleven varieties from the old pear orchard at Perry House Farm in Chew Stoke. Very drinkable and good with (or without) a wide range of foods, from fresh cheeses to grilled fish,...

Vilbery is a well travelled cider apple, originating in Brittany and has found a home in a few old Somerset orchards. It produces a floral cider, with a slight bitter edge and strong tannins. An excellent strong dry traditional cider. Tricky Cider was...

Made with mixed varieties of dessert and cooking apples. Harvested by hand. Pressed in small batches, lightly fermented, pasteurised, bottled and labelled in the orchard. Great care is taken to ensure none of the apples used are sprayed or fertilised...

Made with mixed varieties of dessert apples and pears. Harvested by hand. Pressed in small batches, lightly fermented, pasteurised, bottled and labelled in the orchard. Great care is taken to ensure none of the apples used are sprayed or fertilised. ABV...

This single variety, still, dry cider has been left to age in the bottle to produce a drink full of flavour and tannin with natural smokey flavours complimenting its complexity. The Rawlins Family have been making cider for generations and started...

Keeved and then disgorged to produce a sparkling fine cider with natural sweetness. Left over the cold winter months to slowly ferment, and bottled just before fermentation is complete to give a naturally sparkling cider. Notes of caramel and tropical...

Traditional still sweet cider. Fruity, tropical and easy drinking. The Rawlins Family have been making cider for generations and started pressing cider commercially in 2012, still using the traditional methods that have been used in Somerset for hundreds...

A still medium cider with nice acidity balanced with sweetness to make an easy drinking traditional cider. Unfiltered and matured for a minimum of 12 months. The Rawlins Family have been making cider for generations and started pressing cider...

A keeved, still cider left to ferment to off dry. The fruity smoothness of keeved cider but with the dryness of a traditionally fermented cider. Awarded Gold at the Somerset Cider Championships. The Rawlins Family have been making cider for generations...

A single variety still cider made with a blend of keeved and non-keeved Yarlington Mill apples late on in the season. The cider is aged for 2 years to produce a smokey deep flavour but balanced with natural sweetness. The Rawlins Family have been making...

A single orchard blend, made with Browns, Bulmers Norman and Yarlington Mill cider apples. The cider is sparkling with low tannins, smooth and fruity. Catch the Rainbow! Tricky Cider was founded in 2004, taking it's name from Trickey Warren which was...

Single variety cider made with a local favourite cider apple, Dunketons Late Sweet, with the original tree still standing by the River Brue next to the Dunketon's farm. Fermented to dry, this cider is naturally soft with low tannins making a wonderful...

Single variety cider made with the classic cider apple Crimson King, using fruit from a lovely orchard just outside of Glastonbury on the slopes of Pennard Hill, just overlooking the festival site. A strong dry bittersharp cider, crisp, fruity with a...

A blend of twelve month barrel-aged keeved cider from 2021 with naturally sweet keeved cider from the 2022 season. The addition of Brown's Apple brings refreshing acidity to complete the balance. This delightful Cider from Martin at Pilton Cider was made...

Single variety cider made from the classic Somerset bittersweet cider apple. This is one of Heck's full bodied and rounded ciders, with a rich and fruity sweetness.  The Hecks family have been making traditional farmhouse cider in Somerset for six...

A single variety Keeved Cider in a very limited run of 200 bottles. This is the first time Hecks have produced a Keeved Brown's, chosen as Brown's typically produces great quality crops with a sharp, clean and fresh tasting juice. The ancient method of...

A blend of 3 classic cider apples, Dabinnet, Yarlington Mills and Michelin sourced from Somerset orchards. A rich, dark and full flavoured classic bittersweet farmhouse cider, with mid tannin and medium sweetness. Truly Wizard! Tricky Cider was founded...

This still, medium cider is packed full of apple flavour. A blend using Yarlington Mill, Sweet Coppin, Dabinett, Harry Masters Jersey, Browns together with various others and some Bramleys or other cooking apples. All the apples are hand picked from both...

This still, dry cider is packed full of apple flavour. A blend using Yarlington Mill, Sweet Coppin, Dabinett, Harry Masters Jersey, Browns together with various others and some Bramleys or other cooking apples. All the apples are hand picked from both...

A complex, fruit forward keeved cider. Keeved Cider blended with fermented Blackcurrants, Greengages, Gooseberries, Redcurrants, Whitecurrants and Cherries, all sourced locally.  A gentle spritz lifts a multi layered overload of all the...

This is made from a blend of apples, with a high proportion of eating apples in there. The juice is allowed to start to naturally ferment but only a little before pasteurisation in order to halt the process. After pasteurisation the juice retains a trace...

Named Tower Brue because of the panoramic views across open farmland to King Alfred’s Tower from the orchards, and a tributary to the River Brue that runs alongside, this dry sparkling cider is a blend using Yarlington Mill, Sweet Coppin, Dabinett,...

A single orchard blend of Yarlington Mill, Blenheim Orange, Tremlett's Bitter, Harry Masters Jersey and Browns, the orchard (Peppershells!) is a new one to the Wilding stable. The resulting cider is intensely rich and concentrated, with cooked fruit and...

The new release of this regular cuvee from Wilding. This time it was all blended during harvest rather than later, a blend of Yarlington Mill, Dove and Browns making up 90% of the tank and 10% Chisel Jersey added to give some extra backbone and a little...

An unrestrained foray into a bittersweet cider made with a broad selection of bittersweets (Dabinett, Yarlington Mill, Harry Masters Jersey, and Chisel Jersey with a very small amount of Browns to help feremntation) from various orchards. Made in the...

An easy drinking, albeit complex, cider from Wilding that didn't quite work out as originally planned. This blend featured the best Yarlington Mill of the season (Home Orchard and Ditcheat Hill) with some lovely Stoke Red from Abbot's Leigh and was...

Bone dry and complex blended cider. It has pronounced acidity, soft tannins, and typical bittersweet aromas, with a distinctively Somerset character. Drink with good Somerset cheddar. Varieties: Harry masters, Ellis Bitter, Stoke Red, Browns,...

A blend of rich, late harvested fruit, pressed in December 2019. Good to drink with food or without, whenever you need a reason to be cheerful. Aromas of tropical fruit are kept in balance with good tannic structure and gentle acidity. The blend is built...

A traditional single variety cider from Hecks cider in Street, Somerset. Morgan's Sweet is an early apple and produces a refreshing and light coloured cider. Morgan's Sweet was originally bred in Somerset in the 18th Century and once common throughout...

Made from three vintages from a single orchard. Principally late season Dabinetts, an aromatic Somerset variety, rich in tannins, considered the premier Cider apple. Grown in award-winning orchards less than 7 miles from our Cider Mill in Shepton Mallet,...

Medium dry, orchard blend perry, which shows the diversity of the very special 110 year old orchard at Perry House Farm in Chew Stoke. Co-fermented in stainless steel and racked once before bottling. Still (a slight prickle of bubbles) and medium...

Dry, ancestral method, bittersweet cider. This blend of Yarlington Mill (85%) and Stoke Red (15%) was co-fermented in stainless steel before finishing fermentation in bottle. Extended lees ageing for 20 months gives secondary flavours from tannin...

This natural fruit wine is made exclusively from quince - the apples third cousin- hand picked in orchards on the banks of the river Brue in Somerset. The quince's rose-like floral aroma and unique tartness make a truly distinctive, full flavoured drink...

Six month smokey barrel aged keeved cider. A briny sea blast through the smouldering embers of an orchard peat fire. Confident rounded tannins, soft delicate fruity sweetness and mature acidity on the finish. This batch of keeved cider was spotted as...

The Somerset Cider bus has been making the pilgramage to Glastonbury Festival for the last 45 + years. Parked up near the Pyramid Stage, it serves farm pressed Somerset cider to the thirsty Glastonbury hordes. The Cider Bus cider is a refreshing medium...

Bone dry, but full bodied, an elegant cider which allows the Stoke Red apple to shine through. This cider was the Supreme Champion at the 2011 Royal Bath and West Cider Show. The apples are picked and pressed in the Autumn, and once the first...

Very dry, complex but elegant cider with a sharp fruit finish. This cider was the Overall Champion at the Hereford International Cider and Perry Show 2014, against 200 other UK ciders. The apples are picked and pressed in the Autumn, and once the first...

At Burrow Hill they grow 16 different varieties of pear for perry making. The pears are picked and pressed in the Autumn, and once the first fermentation has finished, the perry is bottled and the bottles are racked in the cellar for a year. The perry...

Fantastic Blend of Cider and Ginger Beer. Perfectly blended to give that slight heat and gingeryness without detracting from the amazing taste of Midford Cider. Delicious warmed through like mulled cider, or cold straight out of the fridge, Stoney Bonk...

Stoke Red is an apple of exceptional qualities which makes a fine single variety cider. The apples for this cider came from a from a beautiful old orchard in Ditcheat. This has a savoury, structured character with tension in balance of tannin, acid and...

The Kingston Black cider apple arose in Somerset in the late 19th century and produces here a cider that is classic in appearance, taste and strength. It is copper coloured, rounded, almost velvety in texture and is full of flavour. The Hecks family have...

Beatnik Billy is a lightly sparkling medium-sweet cider from Worley's Cider. Made from light, sharp juice this sweet cider comes across as an Eastern England style cider or a white wine. Light and relatively low-ABV, with bags of fruit and mellow...

Road Trip from Pilton is an off-dry still cider featuring Tremlett's Bitter & Brown's Apple, grown in the south Somerset parish of Haselbury Plucknett. Fermented with the yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima which is used in winemaking, and aged partly in...

This is the 2021 season expression. Pomme Pomme is a medium sweet keeved cider with quince from the artisan cider makers, Pilton. This fruity cider brings together bittersweet cider apples with their pomme family third cousin, the quince. The unique tart...

This distinctive medium dry award-winning sparkling cider from Pilton is made in Somerset, England by the artisan method of keeving. Fresh bittersweet cider apples are partially fermented to produce a naturally medium cider without sweetening or...

A small batch cider, once the apples are pressed, the resulting juice has been left to mature in the wood before final conditioning in the bottle. The result is a full-bodied naturally sparkling cider, complete with sediment. Perrys Cider was founded at...

A single orchard cider, pressed from the very best Redstreak and Dabinett apples grown at the Knowle St Giles orchard. This well balanced, sparkling, sweet cider is bottled young to keep its sweet fruity taste. Perrys Cider was founded at their Somerset...

Barn Owl cider from Perry is a crisp and refreshing farmhouse cider that combines natural ferments, wild yeasts and traditional apple varieties. A medium dry lightly sparkling cider. Perrys Cider was founded at their Somerset Farm in 1920 and is still...

New bottling- this is the 2023 bottling of Hecks Keeved Yarlington Mill. Only 200 bottles produced A full bodied and rounded cider from Hecks, with a rich and fruity sweetness it's a great partner to the classic ploughman's lunch - especially one full of...

We love this name almost as much as we love this cider. A wine-like cider that's fruity on the nose with an intriguing walnut aftertaste. The Hecks family have been making traditional farmhouse cider in Somerset for six generations, since 1841. In 1896,...

Porter's Perfection cider from Hecks is a dry but very light and fruity cider that is unusually pale in colour. Porter's Perfection is Andrew Hecks favourite cider apple - as featured in our blog article on Hecks here. The Hecks family have been making...