The trees are becoming more established, and have produced good fruit every year. Kingstone Black ( our favourite) produced 114kg of fruit this year. All hand picked and washed. We are now using the 200cl fermentation vessels. Whilst the cider produced is crisp clear and dry, the secondary fermentation process (yeast in champagne bottles) would not be commercially viable. We can take the time to slowly and carefully pour the delicious cider from the bottle, others may have less patience.

So it’s back to “putting our thinking caps on” and coming up with a solution…………..