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October 30, 2020
by Alex Gadzik

Bring the tasting experience home with you! Hear from the Shelton Family and experts in the cider industry while you sip your cider.

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October 2013

by Anne Shelton
This is (hands down) one of my favorite cider cocktails.  I mention it often in the tasting room when asked for cocktail suggestions.  Due to the semi-recent popularity of the honey badger...
by Jenn Detweiler
I had the pleasure of tasting this cocktail for the first time during VA CiderWeek 2012 at the bar in Hamilton's at First & Main in Charlottesville.  Hamilton's created it specifically for...
by Anne Shelton
In our search for great cider cocktails, we came across an article by Garden & Gun about a book on Hemingway's cocktails.  The book includes a cocktail that Hemingway came up with while...
Vintage Virginia Apples/Taste Virginia Applesauce
by Lia Harper Pepper
I've always loved applesauce.  When I was a child my mother would make her own with just a little water and a touch of honey . It never took much encouragement to get me and my two siblings to...

September 2013

Albemarle Baking Co. bread, Caromont Farm cheese, Olli salame
by Jenn Detweiler
The crisp weather of autumn is upon us, and that means it's apple season!  While we have been picking apples since about mid-August, the number of varieties ripe and ready to eat, cook, and make...

August 2013

Cider Bellinis
by Jenn Detweiler
The end of peach season is fast approaching!  Squeeze every last drop of deliciousness out of it with Peach Nectar Cider Bellinis:To make Peach Nectar:Remove peach skins (boil peaches for 30...
by Lia Harper Pepper
It's August, and that means the cider production is done (until this coming fall) and the peaches are coming in heavy, so this Saturday we'll be packing up the truck and taking a haul down to the...

July 2013

by Jenn Detweiler
According to Wikipedia, the 4th year anniversary is customarily celebrated with "fruit and flowers" in the U.K. ("linen and silk" here in the U.S.).  Four years ago, the fruit and flowers...

June 2013

by Lia Harper Pepper
Since I began working at Albemarle CiderWorks I've always noticed that life marched to a different beat around here.  Perhaps the clearest example of this is in how we keep our calendar. ...
by Lia Harper Pepper
What a surprise we got this week to find out, not only that there was a new category for Best Cidery in the C-Ville Weekly's annual Best of C-Ville awards, but that we had been nominated! We're...

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