From Issue Five of Hidden Scotland Magazine
Scotland’s Cider Scene
The cider makers proving it can be made this far north.
Words by Lucy Gillmore · Photographs by Alexander Shewan
Printed in Issue Five of Hidden Scotland Magazine, Autumn and Winter 2022–23.
You can’t make cider this far north, they said. How wrong they were. From Herefordshire to the Highlands, Scotland is the new cider country!
On a Highland estate on the northeast coast of Scotland, William Munro Ferguson is the UK’s most northerly cider producer. Bumping up the dirt track for an impromptu tasting I find him, glass in hand, at the rustic cidery in an old stone stables, now home to six sparkling silver tanks.
The first splash of Novar gold is a single estate Katy, naturally fermented with wild yeast.
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