Rod and Rosie Hawnt have grown apples for many years and made their own cider. They have now launched two distinctive ciders onto the market.

Janet and Martin Harris run an organic smallholding at Bodenham, not far from Leominster. They produce organic soft fruit, pork, eggs and also cider and perry. The cider and perry are not yet soil association registered but they have bought an orchard which is in conversion.

James Marsden and Helen Woodman have made a name for themselves in Herefordshire cider- making circles and regularly win prizes for their perry. Their small production of cider is generally sold at events such as the "Big Apple" and local farmers' markets.

Gregg's Pit is the name of the farm and also a variety of perry pear.

Newton Court is a farm just south of Leominster, boasting some of the oldest orchards in the county.

Tom Oliver is a perry specialist having honed his perry-making skills at Hindlip College. The fruit is hand-picked from unsprayed trees and the juice is fermented by natural yeasts and matured in old oak barrels.

Tom has been instrumental in gaining "presidium"status for perry as an endangered product under the auspices of the International Slow Food movement.

Made by the roving cider-maker, Kevin Minchew. One-time winner of the CAMRA Pomona award, he scours the countryside for the ancient trees bearing the varieties of fruit he requires.

Scientist Andrew Lea relaxes after his day job as consultant to the giants of the cider world by tending the orchard of West Country style cider apple trees which he has planted near his home in Oxfordshire. He is astoundingly generous of his time and expertise in helping hobbyist and small craft cidermakers alike to improve their products. For more information visit www.harphill.co.uk

The aptly-named Keith Orchard , of Yew Tree Farm in the lovely Wye Valley, has been making traditional cider and perry commercially since 2001. We offer a selection of his products. For more information and a full list, see his own web-site at

http://www.orchardsciderandperry.com

Crumpton Oaks Farm, Storridge near Malvern, Worcestershire.

Dennis Gwatkin makes his cider and perry in the Golden Valley, a remote corner of Herefordshire, close to the Welsh border. He believes in minimum intervention in the cider-making process and his ciders and perries are very fruity. The ciders and perries are mostly made from single varieties.

Dunkerton's ciders are produced by Ivor and Susie Dunkerton and their cidermaker, Robert West, at Pembridge in Herefordshire. They only use apples and pears from unsprayed orchards and have been granted Organic status by the Soil Association. You can rely on these ciders and perries to be not only the purest available products, but also delicious drinks which bring out the very best of the fruit flavours.

A mixed case of 12 of the best ciders and perries in stock at any one time. The list below is a guidelinen rather than set in stone.

There is evidence that secondary in-bottle fermentation began, not in Champagne, but with ciders in the Forest of Dean in the 17th century.

We can despatch a single bottle of any of our bottle-fermented ciders or sparkling wines in a safe white moulded polystyrene block surrounded by a stout cardboard sleeve. If sent as a gift it will be accompanied by an attractive Wild Flower of Herefordshire card with your greetings. Add £8.19 (£1.20 for pack and £6.99 for next day special delivery) on to single bottle price. Give us a call on 01568 613576 with your message.