THE CIDER
Sam and Beccy's favourite cider apple, especially forsaking single variety ciders as when you manage to keep some residual sugar, the variety gives wonderful balance with its classy astringent tannin and bright acid. The cider it makes has this wonderful purity of taste and clarity to it. Whilst you could blend other apples to make a cider that drinks like a Kingston Black, it's unlikely you could do the same to mimic a Stoke Red.
Sourced from a single orchard in Abbots Leigh planted in 1951 - these old trees give a fulsome expression of this variety. A great candidate for drinking as an aperitif, otherwise we'd recommend it with seafood.
THE PEOPLE
Sam and Beccy of Wilding Cider grow organic vegetables and make cider near Chew Magna in Somerset. All fruit comes from unsprayed and unfertilised traditional orchards. Naturally, only wild yeasts are used, with no filtering and no additives whatsoever.
THE PLACE
Based just south of Bristol Beccy and Sam work with several old orchards across this traditional growing cider region - some of these being part of the Long Ashton research centre.
Wilding - Stoke Red 2024
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