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WELCOME TO THIS EXCITING GUIDE TO TIPPLE AND TOUR YOUR WAY
AROUND HEREFORDSHIRE’S DISTILLERIES, VINEYARDS, CIDER MAKERS
AND EVEN A COFFEE ROASTERY.

Meet these fascinating producers and discover what inspired them to start their
businesses, as well as marveling at how they make their craft products, often with
a hands-on experience to create your own.

Have a Real Experience September-November for fruit harvests,
Many locations offer tours and tastings, and Distilleries are great rain or shine.
some just have onsite shops and some
products you’ll find at regional stockists Cider & Wassailing
or you can buy direct online. See details Herefordshire is the UK’s largest cider
in their featured adverts. If you’re making producing county, generating over half of
a day of it, or longer, add in wonderful the country’s 700 million litres of cider each
nearby foodie stops, attractions and even year, and is the original home of Bulmers,
associated accommodation. the biggest cider maker in the world.
While they and Westons Cider are the big
Groups and Day Trips boys of the region, there are over 100
For hen and men parties, family get- artisan cidermakers often working from
togethers, social groups or a holiday farms or their homes, producing small batch
activity, you might want to give everyone ciders using traditional methods. Cider is
a chance to taste and not drive during your part of Herefordshire’s DNA.
producer experience – so why not hire a
coach or minibus. Remember, if you all Held in the weeks around Twelfth Night
want to taste, you will at least need a taxi. in January, Wassailing is an ancient
ceremony rooted in cider-making regions.
On Foot, by Motor-vehicle, The orchards are blessed with singing,
dancing and flaming torch-lit processions
by Bicycle led by the Wassail King and Queen. Check
All the producers featured are in beautiful our website to join one of this region’s many
parts of Hereford, the Shire and its borders. events (usually involving a pub!).
Part of the pleasure of visiting them is also
the picturesque route to get there. Think Use this guide and our website to drink
April-May for fragrant blossom time, high in our unique nectars.
summer for vineyard and orchard tours,

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