Cider-making in Navarra, Spain
The best place to find cider is in the Asturias region of Spain – in fact, around 80 percent of all the Spanish ciders are made here. You can also find cider production in the Basque Country and other parts of Green Spain – the name given to the northern Spanish coastal region exposed to the Atlantic Ocean in Galicia, as well as Cantabria, the Basque Country, and along the Bay of Biscay. Unlike many parts of southern Spain, these regions get lots of rain – perfect for apple growing. Asturian cider is called sidra, and in the Basque Country, it’s called sagardoa.
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Cider maker swamped by apples as orchard renaissance starts to bear fruit
Volunteers are reviving a legacy of fruit trees in the UK that stretches back to the Romans, hugely increasing biodiversity – and drinks production
very autumn, cider maker Hawkes asks Londoners to donate apples to its cidery under the railway arches in Bermondsey, just south of Tower Bridge. In normal times, people who drop off a box of russets or royals leave with a bottle of cider from last year’s crop. But 2020 has not been a normal year.
Through a trial delivery scheme to continue the exchange during the pandemic, 12 tonnes of apples have arrived at Hawkes in the post.
“It’s been absolutely mad,” says Elliot Allison, head of marketing for Hawkes. Hundreds of boxes from all over England were posted, enough to make cider from several regions, not just the capital, this winter.
“There’s something like 2 million apples every day in the UK that are left to rot, which is unbelievable. We did the cider maths, and we worked out that every second, about two and a half pints of cider go to waste,” says Allison.
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