Their story
Hancocks Meadow Farm is a family-run smallholding on the banks of the River Wye at Ballingham, Herefordshire. It presses cider from its own heritage-variety apple orchard, making small batches of both single-variety and blended traditional ciders, fermented in a mix of steel, plastic and oak vessels. The farm also produces a hard, raw ewes'-milk cheese, made by a mother-and-daughter team and matured on site for around four months, and keeps a flock of Shropshire sheep and Berkshire pigs alongside the orchard. Its cider is sold through the online retailer CiderOnline. The farm does not publish the names of the apple varieties it grows, nor detailed visiting hours or tour arrangements on its own site.
Its own heritage-variety apple orchard on the farm's smallholding; no tree age or variety names are published.
What they make
- Miles' Orchard dry, farmhouse style, 6.5% ABV
- Medium Cider medium, traditional
Visiting
Tasting room at the farm, for cider and cheese
Opening times, as they publish them: Previously published as 1st and 3rd Saturday of July to September
Tastings: Yes. The farm also sells raw ewes'-milk cheese from the same tasting room; visitors can walk the heritage orchard and the riverbank.
Tours. Orchard walks along the River Wye are offered; no booking process or price is published.
Where to buy
- Online, direct from the maker cideronline.com