Kevin Garrod became interested in cider at the Abergavenny Food Festival in 2005. I worked for a few years at Gwynt y Ddraig Ciders and around 2007 I began to make a small amount of cider for personal consumption and family and friends. In 2015 I decided to start making a quantity that made it worthy of selling to the general public and coupled also with the fact I was comfortable that I was producing a product that was good enough to let out into the public domain.
The Monnow Valley is littered with small farm full standard tree orchards. I harvest from five separate orchards (differing landowners). All of them have a good range of cider apples and perry pears and small amounts of dessert and culinary fruit too. 90% of the fruit I use comes from these orchards both for cider and perry, with the exception of dessert and culinary fruit I use in my apple juice products.
