Fowey Valley Cider Hamper
This hamper contains Sparkling Vintage Cider 750ml, Castledore Medium Dry Cider 330ml, Vintage Cider Vinegar 250ml, Extra Virgin Sicilian Olive Oil 250ml, Cider Chutney 285g, Miniature of Pommeau 50ml, Miniature of Eau de Vie 50ml and a bag of Cider Fudge 100g.
Our Sparkling Vintage Cider is made with a high proportion of dessert apples in the mix to give it that delicious ‘méthode traditionelle’ taste. The apples are pressed, then fermented twice: first in the barrel for a year; then a second year’s fermentation in the bottle. The cider is then disgorged in the champagne style and aged further before release. It is the secondary fermentation that gives our cider its wonderful bubbly effervescence; a method invented in the West Country for fine cider making around 1600, well before it was used in France for Champagne. Our Sparkling Vintage Cider won silver at the 2015 British Cider championships and a 2016 Gold Taste of the West award.
The name ‘Castledore’ is taken from the iron age fort Castle Dore which stands just a couple of hundred meters from the Fowey Valley home orchard. It is a wonderfully refreshing, medium dry, lightly carbonated cider. Very clean on the palate, well balanced, and low tannin, with a beautiful straw colour.
Fowey Valley Vintage Cider Vinegar is made from our Vintage Cider. Aged for three years before bottling, our cider vinegar is unfiltered, unpasteurised and has no preservatives added. The healthy vinegar! It is 5% strength - perfect for salads, chips and pickling.
To complement our cider vinegar we import and bottle this extra virgin olive oil from southwest Sicily. Our Nocellara del Belice olives are grown in the Belice Valley near the town of Castelvetrano. This variety is characterised by its bright green colour and its large, plump size; each olive weighs from 6 to 8 grams. The oil has aromas of citrus fruits and pepper. It is lightly spicy, extraordinarily fruity, silky and light with notes of artichokes, green apple, tomatoes and delicate young green almond. The finish is wonderfully fresh. We source this fantastic oil from our friends the Bua family who supply our champagne corks and grow these olives.
Made from Grandma Gibson's secret recipe. It's got our cider, cider vinegar and apples, in it. What more could you want? It's not too spicy so the apple and onion can come through. Delicious with cold cuts or cheese.
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Winning Bidder
Melanie Slape