Winding your way through the rolling hills outside of Charlottesville, VA, the green velvety turf marked off by white picket fences, you can’t help but think you’re in horse country. Not the the working horse country of the cowboy West but the gentleman farmer kind. Thomas Walker was one such 18th century gentleman farmer as … [Read more…]
Jim Morrison greeted me as I opened the door to a small nondescript warehouse space tucked into a quiet residential area near Sacramento City College. “Break on through to the other side”, sang Jim as I made my way into the heart of Two Rivers Hard Cider (www.tworiverscider.com) looking for its chief cider maker Vincent … [Read more…]
If you’ve been paying attention at all you will have recently noticed cider being declared The Next Big Thing. Media outlets large and small have been publishing pieces talking about soaring sales or reviews of a handful of the hundreds of ciders now available in the US, and every piece seems to start out by … [Read more…]