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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's been an amazing harvest so far. Great fruit for cidermaking and for baking: I'm eating apple cake as I write this!

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Best thing about harvest season is that it is also baking season. A summer of being too hot to use the oven is now over! Huzzah!

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Foxwhelp. One of the great apple varieties. Favoured for five centuries, the cider it produces cannot be matched by any other variety for it's intensity, clarity of expression, and notes of strawberries, rhubarb and raspberry depending on vintage / method / orchard.

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Early Taynton Squash, afaik. Again very scab heavy, doubt it helps it's a very thick, twiggy canopy growing on a north slope and an absolutely massive tree. Favoured sleeping spot for sheep means we have no grass under it either. Makes a Perry that tastes of pears poached in honey. Love it

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Aylton Red, Aka Red Pear. Someone once told me they're meant to be two different varieties but I don't know about that. Our trees are established but prone to scab, yet they're very productive and it makes a supreme, creamy, nutty Perry. 1 month early this year which is bonkers and an outlier.

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thorn pears, from two different orchards. An iconic early season perry pear, probably the second most common variety after Blakeney Red. Good acidity with often light tannins too. Healthy, semi-vigorous trees. Heartily endorse.

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Harvest has begun. We have moved almost everything on the farm in the last two weeks to create a festival and then a pressing space. It's a superhuman effort that requires long hours and determination. But yesterday we put the first pears through the press and already I am filled now with excitement

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Four days to go to RossFest 2026. Another special volunteer dinner. Fourth crumble of the season. Bramley and mistakenly picked up Somerset Redstreaks. They fit in well though. Plus earlier: it was a bit wet.

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fruit is epic. It's nearly harvest. Gonna be a doozy

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Fascinating to compare the 1 year growth of these two different top worked trees. The first image shows Sandford Jersey and the second Kimbolton (I think, but I was walking Freya). Where one has exclusively upright growth, the bushier habit of the Sandford is quite exciting and unusual!

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

In the Yew Tree Peterstow drinking a 2025 Foxwhelp. Kegged as a pét nat it's a beautiful cider. Vibrant and juicy, with beautiful floral aromas, strawberry notes and of course that refreshing, intense acidity. Find it at: Fell NQ, MCR The Old Shoe, Sheffield Hereford Beer House

A photo of the 2025 pét nat Foxwhelp S.V. Cider

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It's pretty wet out there. Our first Ciderkin will debut at the Yew Tree, Peterstow, later this month!

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If you drink one Ross-on-Wye this month it should be this 2022 vintage Bulmers Norman SV. It is, to me, a completely joyous cider. When the days are dark and wet, this cider is defiantly, gloriously fruity. In one glass, it is what bittersweet cider is meant to be!

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

From this Thursday where Martin will host London Cider Clubs, to our Single Variety Symposium at the Yew Tree in late May. In micropubs, village halls, one Cidrothequé and even the Houses of Parliament, we're on a mission to spread the word of the apple to as many people as possible!

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Announcing our 2025 Spring Tour! lbert and Martin are hitting the road and travelling around the UK and to Europe to share with you the STORIES that make our cider and perry! We'll be popping up to drink with you and tell you all the reasons why we adore cidermaking and orcharding so much.

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I was significantly more excited for this cider before a cataclysmic poonami that necessitated a bath, screaming, a change of clothes, an immediate wash cycle. But here we are. And actually, if anything, better for having been made to wait. These smooth tannins are glorious and rewarding.

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

TRADE: Did you know you can find us on Sellar? We're setup to dispatch keg, bottle and bag-in-box via courier or pallet for larger orders to anywhere in the UK, reaching areas our distributors don't cover. Visit our Sellar store here: app.sellar.io/suppliers/ro...

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We're on Substack now! If you enjoy using that platform, you can subscribe to our blog here: substack.com/@rosscider. You can subscribe on substack and receive the mailouts directly to your email inbox! Norman is waiting patiently for our next post!

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This one was a treat tonight. Moved on a lot from when it was bottled last summer! Strawberry & rhubarb but with chalkiness and a touch of bitterness. We've made SR 3 times in my time. The first was naturally sweet, a unicorn. The second was far too bitter fruit, a bad year. This one is just right.

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Here is my favourite people in front of my favourite tree. We pressed 120L from this tree this season. The tree, as far as I can find out, predates our family moving to the farm. That would mean it is most likely at least 100 years old. It's true name is lost, but I call it 'Freya's Fortune'!

Becky with baby Freya, in front of the 100+ year old tree we have named 'Freya's Fortune'

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Join us at the Yew Tree next Saturday night for our monthly Cider Club. This time Albert will be hosting a special tasting of the One Juice Project, 5.5 years on! This was a 2019 juice pressing that was shared and then individually fermented between 5 producers. Each cider was totally unique!

Albert presenting at a previous cider club

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

For 2025 I wanted to allow myself spontaneous, uncurated posting. I enjoyed shitposting about The Traitors and regret that it is over and that Alexander didn't win. Todays update for you is that this cider is seriously good. It tastes particularly good served at "Barn Temperature (February edition)"

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Big happy birthday to the big fella. His best in 50 years, reckons Marco Silva. Could be.

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A very very satisfying re-arrangement of the cider shop today. We are at a record 28 different single variety ciders!! In all we have 84 different ciders and perries just made by us, with another 35 made by guest producers.

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Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry @rosscider.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Quick orchard walk to see what we've got ready to press next week after the storm. Porter's perfection getting close to ready. The rest of Northwood, as well as Ashton Brown Jersey, Gloucester Underwear and possibly Red Styre all good to go come Monday.

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