Devon Made, Devon grown
Not all ciders are created equal
Our ciders are all made exclusively from fresh apples grown on our farm. We grow the apples ourselves, we pick them ourselves, press them ourselves. Then we ferment the juice and bottle the cider all here at Solland Farm.
When we say our cider is Devon Cider, we really mean it.
If cider is bottled in Devon, but the apples or apple juice come from further afield, is it really Devon Cider?
... Of course with clever marketing mutton can dressed as lamb, but it's hardly the genuine article.
We have 14,000 of our own apple trees and our cider is handmade on our farm from blossom to bottle!
Our ciders are all at least 90% apple juice (and in reality higher than that - We add sugar to some, but we don't just stand there with the tap running in to your cider!)
Some ciders aren't so lucky!
Many commercial ciders can has so little juice in them, they really ought to be called "cider flavoured drinks".
Indeed the National Association of Cidermakers sets out instructions for their members which has since been adopted by the government - To make sure that they can make "cider" with only 35% apple juice in it. That's the standard they think is good enough for cider.
... Is that really enough? We'll let you decide.
