Most loved customer of the month

Here's a wee thank you to the lovely John from Harwich in Essex, who's sent me an e mail waxing lyrical about our cider .... (see below)

Dear Tash

Have just spent a long weekend with friends and thought we'd take along some of your gorgeous medium cider. Ordered late Wednesday evening and it arrived Friday just as you said, promptly and in perfect condition.
Everyone who tried it loved its delicious fresh, clean taste, a credit to the way you guys produce your traditional cider and the 10l hardly had time to chill properley before being polished off with some serious gusto.
We love what you do and now so do all our friends.
Great job Heron Valley, keep on pressing,you ROCK.....

Kind regards
John

Thanks John - we really appreciate hearing feedback on our cider, especially when it's so good and we didn't even need to bribe you!!

Have a great week all

x Tasha

Thirsty Sailors

Look out today at 4pm for Heron Valley's feature on the ITV1 show 'The Hungry Sailors' - Dick Strawbridge and his son visited us last Summer to learn a thing or 3 about our Cider, 6 pints later and the canoe down the river seemed a little daunting, but they went for it anyway (the key is to drink just enough to enhance your bravery before you hit the weir.....)

Racking Time

It's that time of year again... clear skies, plummeting temperatures, and just after 12th night - it's Cider racking time!

This week we'll be starting to rack our new season cider. The warm winter has speeded up the fermentation process, so that the juice we pressed in September is now well on the way to becoming cider. Racking is a process of pumping the partially fermented cider from one barrel to another leaving behind any sediment and dead yeasts that occur as a bi product of fermentation. We choose a cold day as this improves the clarity of the juice and more of the sediment is present at the bottom of the barrels, and so can be left behind when we pump into the secondary fermentation barrels.

Look out for our tasting notes in 1 month time and we'll give you an update of how the cider is progressing....