Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes The global trade in fresh fruit amounts to about 80 tons a year with a value of roughly $75 billion. This mass globalization of the fruit trade is relatively modern...
Each month I pose one question to a trio of cidermakers to compare similarities and differences between creators of our favorite drink. We’ve covered a good range of topics: cidermaking challenges,...
Cidermakers across Maine are leading the way when it comes to foraged cider, sourcing forgotten fruit along the rocky coast, through longstanding farmlands, and along neighbors’ fences. Here are...
Cidermakers are rediscovering the long, delicious history of pét nat ciders At the tip of the hip cultural sphere in beverages sits “pét nat,” short for pétillant naturel — a French term that...
After years of increasingly severe wildfires in major wine regions such as Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties in California, and in the Adelaide Hills of Australia (among others), the concern about...
Each month I ask one question to three cidermakers to compare the similarities and differences between artist of the same craft. Last month, we learned what favorite styles of cider certain...