Burrow Hill Apple Day
Apple Day at Burrow Hill Cider Farm
Burrow Hill Cider Farm is a cider farm near Kigsbury Episcopi at the base of Burrow Hill overlooking the Somerset Levels.
It has views of most of South Somerset on clear days. The Cider is made in traditional vats and uses age old traditional methods of production. Steve Carpenter and Greg Bown recently attended "Apple Day" when the apples are harvested from locally owned orchards.
Burrow Hill Cider is widely known for its Cider Brandy and for it's 'Cider Bus' which is always in attendance at the Glastonbury Festival. The Cider Bus is a common meeting place for festival goers and serves the near-legendary Hot Spiced Cider.
Guest speaker at this years 'Apple Day' was Tom Parker Bowles.
Burrow Hill has been a cider farm for 150 years and Julian Temperley has been running it for the last 35 years. In 1984 he won the 'Triple Crown', winning cider competitions in Hereford, Devon and Somerset. The cider is pressed from 40 different varieties of cider apple and the farm owns 150 acres of orchard.Apart from traditional farmhouse cider, Julian makes two exceptional bottle fermented sparkling ciders.
The cider is matured on its yeast for a year and then disgorged by freezing the ends of the bottles. This so called 'Champagne Method' was pioneered in Hereford in 1632 by Lord Scudamore before the Civil War and had reached Montacute House in Somerset by 1664, long before the French even claim to have invented the method... Old cider house, huge vats, barrels, farm animals.
Single Variety Bottle Fermented Sparkling Cider: Kingston Black and Stoke Red. Dry and Medium Farmhouse Ciders & Cider Vinegar, Apple Juice: Russet, Cox and Bramley.
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