Cider Week features these regional farm-made and craft ciders.
Albemarle Ciderworks
Garden, VA
Albemarle Ciderworks is a family-run Cidery and Tasting Room that produces hard cider from heritage varieties of apples that can thrive in Albemarle County, Virginia.
Blue Bee Cider
Richmond, VA
Blue Bee Cider is the newest cidery in Virginia and the only one in an urban location. Blue Bee Cider will start selling sweet apple juice, unfiltered, unpasteurized, with no preservatives, in fall 2012 at Richmond area farmers’ markets. It will launch its hard ciders in spring 2013.
Bold Rock Cider
Nellysford, VA
Bold Rock Cidery crushes Virginia apples at their farm cidery along Rt. 151 at Wintergreen beneath the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Tours, tastings and hard cider to go. Come drink in the scenery! Bold Rock six-packs are available at our cidery and a wide variety of stores and pubs/restaurants throughout most of Virginia and our Crimson Ridge premium hard cider in 750ml bottles will be coming out soon.
Castle Hill Cider
Keswick, VA
The famous ‘Albemarle Pippin’ first came to Albemarle County in a planting at Castle Hill, home of Thomas Walker, guardian and mentor to Thomas Jefferson. Albemarle Pippins and twenty-seven other varieties are now raised in accordance with the organic standard at Castle Hill Cider, which occupies a beautiful 600 acre portion of the original Castle Hill estate. CHC uniquely combines modern and ancient techniques, and creates the world’s only cider that is fermented, and matured, in buried earthen amphorae or kvevri.
Foggy Ridge Cider
Dugspur, VA
Foggy Ridge Cider reinvents cider tradition in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. English cider apples like Tremlett's Bitter and Dabinett, along with American cider heirlooms such as Ashmead's Kernel, Hewe's Crabapple and Roxbury Russet, contribute complex flavors, acids and tannins to Foggy Ridge Cider's four hard cider blends plus two apple ports. Tasting room is open weekends, and Foggy Ridge Cider is sold throughout the southeast and in New York.
Old Hill Cider
Timberville, VA
Old Hill Cidery is a recent addition to Showalter's Orchard in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley where Sarah and Shannon's family has been growing apples on their Old Hill for more than 40 years. The Showalter's are working to revive an American Tradition...crafting cider in a way that the Colonial Cidermakers of early America would be proud to drink and to serve.
Potter’s Craft Cider
Union, VA
Potter’s Craft Cider is a revival of authentic American farmhouse cider. It is made using nothing but high-quality traditional cider apples, including Virginia Winesap and Albemarle Pippin. Our apples are grown locally in family-run orchards from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Potter's Craft Cider is available on draft and in bottles in Central Virginia and surrounding areas.
Winchester Ciderworks
Middletown, VA
We pride ourselves on producing hand crafted english style hard cider from locally grown apples in the heart of Virginia's apple country.
November 18, 2012
By: Graelyn Brashear
Appalachia is home to more apple varieties than the rest of the country combined, legacy of a bygone era when mountain settlers experimented with fruit trees in relative isolation. According to Gary Nabhan, an Arizona-based conservation biologist, sustainable agriculture activist, and “scholar in residence” during Virginia’s first annual Cider Week, the American apple is inextricably linked to the area.
November 16, 2012
By: Sheila OConnor
Related topics Charlottesville Virginia cider festivals Advertisement San Francisco world travelers heading for the Charlottesville area should be sure to check out artisanal cideries dotting the landscape and take part in toasting the First Annual Virginia Cider Week! Central Virginia may be known for its vineyards, but not to be missed are its six cideries. Each week before Thanksgiving is designated as “Virginia Cider Week,” where cider makers and industry supporters take part in events around the state, particularly the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, in an effort to boost the profile of Virginia ciders and the people who produce them.