Welcome! We're Tom and Lydia, natural cider makers.
Our low intervention ciders contain only fruit that the two of us have handpicked from unsprayed, biodiversity-rich, traditional standard orchards and are as local to us as possible. Apples are the only ingredient you will ever find in any of our ciders!
We don’t add any sugar, water or sulphites and we don’t pasteurize. Fermentation happens spontaneously using the apples' wonderful wild yeasts!
Featured products
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Tour and tasting
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New releases mixed case (3x 75cl ciders, 1x 75cl cyser, 1x perry)
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Flock cider (2023, dry, ancestral method)
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Bisquet cider (2023, medium dry, ancestral method)
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Blog posts
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Escape to the Country visits Artistraw Cider
Last summer we had the absolute pleasure of being visited by the BBC 'Escape to the Country' TV crew to film an episode for series 25 (episode 55) of the...
Escape to the Country visits Artistraw Cider
Last summer we had the absolute pleasure of being visited by the BBC 'Escape to the Country' TV crew to film an episode for series 25 (episode 55) of the...
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Replanting old orchards for the cidermakers of ...
The past two months have seen us spending our days continuing our annual work in restoring Duffryn orchard. We’ve been harvesting fruit from this stunning orchard since 2020 and each...
Replanting old orchards for the cidermakers of ...
The past two months have seen us spending our days continuing our annual work in restoring Duffryn orchard. We’ve been harvesting fruit from this stunning orchard since 2020 and each...
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Some thoughts on growth
The growth we are most interested in is that that belongs to the trees. We are occasionally asked how we intend to scale the business, what growth model we intend...
Some thoughts on growth
The growth we are most interested in is that that belongs to the trees. We are occasionally asked how we intend to scale the business, what growth model we intend...
What our customers say...
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On Foxwhelp 2022...
Buy Foxwhelp"One of the most delicious, crystalline, deep, balanced and beautiful Foxwhelps ever. A masterpiece of potential extremes brought into harmony. Drink now or save for up to 10+ years, easy."
Cider Review, 22nd November 2023
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On our tours and tastings...
Book a tour"Tom & Lydia are so incredibly passionate about what they do. Their knowledge and enthusiasm is off the scale. It was an absolute pleasure to spend time with them at their apple orchard learning about the history of cider making, the various varieties of apples they grow and all topped off by a glass or two of their excellent cider. A very enjoyable experience and as 2 sceptics to the world of cider, they may well have converted us!!"
Paul (visited September 2024)
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On Bisquet 2022
Buy Bisquet"Sherbet, herbaceous, leafy, wild, waxy citrus peel and apricot nose. On the
palate it’s all that and backed with structure. Plump, juicy fruit with
apple, lemon and pineapple, lifted by a mousse of carbonation, a fresh
squeeze of acidity and chalky tannins for a full on finish. Another 10/10. Grab Bisquet 2022 as soon as humanly possible."Martyn Goodwin Sharman, October 2024
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a fan!
In 2024 we were lucky enough to meet one of our food and sustainability heroes, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall at the Hay Literary Festival. Hugh drank a bottle of our cider onstage during a talk he was giving with with health guru Tim Spector where they declared it ' practically a health drink!' on account of it being natually made and stuffed full of complex polyphenols which are 'nature's defence chemicals'.
This year, in May 2025, we were delighted to be sent this photo of Hugh purchasing a bottle of our 'Gold Dust' cider by one of our most loved stockists, Old Tree Brewery. It means the world to us to be supported by someone we admire so much!
How big is our cider's carbon footprint?
We are hugely proud to be the first UK cidery to publish our carbon footprinting data. Each bottle of cider now contains this information on the label. We believe this is an essential metric for us all to start being able to make conscious and informed choices about what we consume and the effect those decisions will have on our planet.
'All I think about is picking apples'
This season we have had the complete honour of being shadowed by Finn Beales, an award-winning travel, lifestyle and commercial photographer. Finn has beautifully captured what it is to make and love cider through both still and moving image whilst exploring every aspect of our process from handpicking to pressing.
“We want to get ourselves away from the disposable, consumptive culture of debt and infinite growth.”
Read about our cidermaking ethos in this wonderful article for Pellicle Mag by Helen Jerome, with beautiful photography by Lily Waite.
