Woodredding Cider

Cidery in Ross-On-Wye, Herefordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2007

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Woodredding Farm, Yatton, Ross-On-Wye, HR9 7RG, England
Description
Cider has been made at Woodredding for at least 200 years. Up till 2007 apples were collected and taken to Westons’ Cider Mill two miles away, but in that year after a gap of fifty years we revived the tradition of cider making on the farm and got the 18th Century cider press back into action.

​The present cider orchard was planted in 1959 with the Ashton Brown Jersey, Bulmer’s Norman, Michelin, Vilberie and Lavigne varieties. More recently Yarlington Mill trees were planted and are now cropping well. We have also planted Herefordshire Redstreak and Somerset Redstreak as replacement trees in our old orchard.

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

500ml bottle from Orchards Explorer Club. Golden colour, white head that quickly dissipates away and aroma of pear, fruity, caramel, butterscotch. Taste is sweetish, caramel, dessert pear, fleshy, mellow, syrupy with alittle citric acidity. Medium bodied, light carbonation, medium syrupy pear finish. Nicely drinkable

Tried from Bottle on 22 Oct 2020 at 20:14


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

500ml bottle from Orchard Explorers Club. Deep orangey amber colour, short-lived white foam head and aroma of sharp solventy funk & mellow apple. Taste is tangy, orchardy, apple, mellow, funky, solventy along with woody spicy tannins. Medium bodied, low carbonation, dry funky tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2020 at 20:45


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle from trade courtesy of minutemat, thanks Mat! Pours an orangey amber gold colour with a white foamy head that dissipates away and aroma of orchardy funky musty apple. Taste is sweet, juicy fleshy apple, woody funk, bittersweet, orchardy with earthy drying tannins. Medium bodied, low soft carbonation, semi-dry tannic finish. Quite drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Apr 2019 at 21:47


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle from Ludlow Food Centre. Pours a deep orange-tinged amber, thin white ring atop. Aroma of light rosy apple fruit. Taste is moderately sweet, soft tannin, gentle apple fruit, not too complicated but has a nice firm tannin presence. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2019 at 19:21


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

500ml bottle from Hop Pocket Wines. Pours a lightly misty gold. Taste presents a sweet scrumpy character, a little old, lightly oxidised.. seems to have been bottled in 2016, so perhaps a bit past it, though the fruitiness is still there.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2019 at 22:05


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle from Hop Pocket, Herefordshire. Pours clear gold, quite a strong wild aroma, some butterscotch, silage. Taste presents a strong initial acidic bite which dries out fairly swiftly, interesting perry pear fruit once the initial sharp wild hit subsides, some prickly nettley elements. Interesting perry.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2019 at 18:01


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from the brewer’s own stall at the Thame Food Festival. Slightly murky gold. Pearskins up front, then surprisingly some scrumpy-like tannic bite in th middle. Very refreshing by the end with light floral hints. A decent perry this.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2015 at 15:41