Aaron Burr Cidery - Homestead Locational Ciders : Sullivan County Apple Cider 2021 500ml

  The Cidery”, which produces Aaron Burr Cider in Wurtsboro, New York, is a small homestead farm dating back to the early 1800s. Our tenure (and you can read more more about us here) on this land began in 2006 with the planting of a cider-orchard. Cider-apples are different from eating-apples in the same way wine-grapes are different from table-grapes. You wouldn’t want to make wine from big, tasty fresh-eating grapes, and the same applies with cider. We use our apples and other locally grown and foraged apples for one mission: to re-create “true cider”, the rightful table wine of our land. Similarly, we limit cider production to about 30 barrels of cider a year. This is certainly not because we can’t sell more (it’s not for lack of success that we don’t scale-up), but that volume relates to what we ourselves -our hands, our backs, mom-and-pop homesteaders (not specialists) can harvest and press each Fall. In my mind, that’s still a lot of apples to collect in a short 5-week harvest se