Sandford Orchards

The year tears on by..

admin — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:10:22 +0000

Lots of hellos to the many folk who we’ve had the pleasure of meeting this year. The summer is upon us and we’ve had an amazingly busy time since the last time the blog has been updated. Three of the biggest things to happen must be:

1) The Wetherspoon cider festival chugged a whack of our scrumpy – we were asked by Wetherspoons to supply their annual summer festival, and took great pleasure in seeing our cider enjoyed across the UK. We certainly hadn’t imagined we’d have such an opportunity – we were thrilled to be asked.

2) Unleashing Fanny’s Bramble on an incredibly receptive market! Fanny’s Bramble is a loverly drop of blackberries and cider – available both as a 500ml sparkling cider and also as a still bag-in-box.

3) Seeing our ciders satisfying more and more landlords and ladies and their fine upstanding customers. With three different kegs ciders, 5 still draft and a classy collection in glass now available we’re pretty sure we’ve got the apples to keep the keenest of thirsts quenched.

Merry Christmas and Wassail!

admin — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:38:46 +0000

With the winter already proving it’s bitter and wicked self to be utterly unforgiving we’re praying that the new year is a little more helpful. A visit to BBC Radio Devon for the “Weather Show” on January 3rd looking back at 2010 weather and the relevance to orchards and cider. We will also be fulfilling our customary obligation to toast our orchards at our annual Wassailing ceremony.

Beer magazine

admin — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:59:14 +0000

Adrian Tierney Jones popped in to drink cider and wrote a very nice story about his visit. Follow his tweets

Click the link to read the article as a pdf:

Camra Magazine Article

Silver and Bronze from Taste of the West

admin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:00:05 +0000

We didn’t enter our full range of products for judging at Taste of the West this year. We’re too tight to pay for all the entries! However our Devon Red won silver, Shaky Bridge won bronze and so did our apple juice. We’ll enter a few more next year.

Olive Magazine

admin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:37:40 +0000

Lovely foodie magazine Olive, so a real privilege to be chosen as a Food Champion by them.

Olive Feature as pdf

Farmer and Grower – front page stunna

admin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:49:06 +0000

In the agricultural community this is akin to immortality! Jolly good publication it is too, aimed directly to its membership of around 50,00o British farmers and growers they made the trip down to visit us at the beginning of September.

British Farmer and Grower October

Finalists in the Devon Life Awards!

admin — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:17:46 +0000

So many thank-yous to whoever decided that we were worth a vote! It is a huge honour to be nominated as one of the best drinks producers in Devon, and we are certainly in extremely good company. We’re very excited to get a night away from the farm, and I for one am hoping that I can still squeeze into my dinner suit.

Farming Today interview

admin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:41:19 +0000

A pleasant morning wondering around the farm and chatting to Farming Today. The only clanging mistake you’ll hear in the first minute when she refers to Sandford Orchards as “Sandford Organics” – ouch!

Paul O’Grady video back by popular demand…

admin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:24:13 +0000

Well, you’ve asked for it – so I guess you’re only getting what you deserve.

Devon Red on tap at Club Crediton

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:11:12 +0000

We are very proud to announce that Club Crediton is serving Devon Red by the pint to its extremely lucky customers.

The first outlet in town serving draught is selling our award-winning brew on special offer while stocks last…