Wye Valley Cider House
Single-orchard cider and juice pressed from heritage Welsh apples.
Three generations of our family have looked after this orchard above the Monnow. We have sixty varieties of cider and dessert apple, some of them, like Frederick and Monmouthshire Beauty, so local you will not see them anywhere else. We pick by hand from late September into November, press on a 1920s rack-and-cloth press in the cider barn, and ferment slowly through the winter in old oak. Nothing is filtered hard, nothing is back-sweetened with concentrate. The juice tastes of the year it was picked, and so does the cider.
Visit us
Orchard shop open Friday to Sunday 10am to 5pm, March to December. Self-guided orchard walks free; guided tastings (£8) Saturdays at 2pm in season.
The team
Geraint Powell
Cidermaker & orchardist
Third generation on the orchard. Knows every tree by name, picks the press blends by taste, and refuses to bottle anything that has not had a winter in oak.
Anwen Powell
Juice & preserves
Runs the juice press, the preserves kitchen and the Friday to Sunday shop. Holds the family together at peak harvest.
Bethan Powell-Jones
Orchard apprentice
Geraint's daughter, home from agricultural college. Replanting the lost varieties one grafting season at a time.
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What we make
Orchard-pressed apple juice
Single-pressed in October from a blend of Bramley, Cox and our own heritage trees. No concentrate, no added sugar.
£3.50 / 750ml bottle
Monnow medium-dry cider 6.5%
Slow-fermented over winter from bittersweet cider apples. Still, dry-finishing, with a deep amber colour.
£5.50 / 500ml bottle
Mixed dessert apple box
A two-kilo box of whatever is best on the trees this week - usually Cox, Egremont Russet and Worcester.
£8.50 / 2kg box
Apple & cinnamon preserve
Made in small open pans from windfall Bramleys, demerara sugar and Ceylon cinnamon. Lovely on hot toast.
£5.25 / 227g jar