Dymock Red is a rare bittersharp cider apple from Gloucestershire, once widely planted but now rare. It’s an old apple … and by old we mean old - the first written record of Dymock Red was in John Evelyn’s Pomona, first published in 1670 - so it’s an example of Gloucestershire’s apple growing heritage. When the Long Ashton Research Station was still in existence and doing invaluable research into apples (and other fruit), Dymock Red was favourably compared with Kingston Black, a famous bittersharp cider apple that is sometimes referred to as the best cider apple of them all. We have just 25 × 500ml bottles available for sale (rather frustratingly, a filling valve broke as it was being bottled so a good proportion of the small batch we fermented last autumn ended up on the floor). The cider is bone dry - we have added no sugar at all - but it’s full of the flavour and body you’d expect from an old West Country cider apple.Due to the small batch size, we are limiting purchases to 2 bottles per order, so at least 13 different people can taste what Dymock Red cider tastes like.This is the first of our “Gloucestershire Series” ciders, where we’ll hope to shine a spotlight on some of the most interesting of Gloucestershire’s apple cultivars, whether due to their excellence or due to their rarity or, in the case of Dymock Red, both.
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