Category: News

New Look Katja Perfectly timed for summer, we have just relaunched our English sparkling cider, Katja, in a convenient new 500ml bottle. A crisp, modern, single-varietal sparkling cider, Katja offers... Read More

Tree planting Over the past few months we have been busy planting more cider apple trees. We are thrilled to have created two new orchards by planting 250 trees. The first one is on the site of a neg... Read More

From Zero to Hero Less than twelve months after launching our first non-alcoholic cider, Red Zero, was named Best Non-Alcoholic Cider at the World Cider Awards. This huge accolade added to the burgeo... Read More

As another year draws to a close, we’ve been reflecting on the past twelve months, raising a glass to some great achievements and looking forward to the year ahead. Here’s a little insight into th... Read More

Bumper Harvest Autumn is harvest season for us, our favourite and busiest time at the cider works, and this year we are anticipating the biggest crop we have ever experienced. A mild spring and the s... Read More

Choose the Right Cider Life summer competition You may have already seen our bestselling and much loved Devon Red featured on buses and billboards this summer as we have recently launched our outdoor... Read More

Spring is a marvellous time of year. Winter is behind us, the days are getting longer, lighter and, hopefully, warmer and nature is bursting into life. There is even the real possibility of some al fr... Read More

When you think of awards, you are probably thinking of trophies and accolades but, much as we love winning those, we realised some time ago that our industry needed something quite different. We launc... Read More

The One Show This year, harvest time was even more special because, back in October, we were visited by a film crew from Yeti Television, working for The One Show. They were particularly keen to hear... Read More

Autumn is our favourite time of the year at Sandford Orchards. It is busy, with long hours and a lot of hard work, as we harvest and press the year’s crop of apples. Yet it is extremely satisfying t... Read More

New Red Zero In September, we launched Red Zero (ABV 0.5%), a refreshing non-alcoholic version of our award-winning Devon Red. As you know, we like to do things properly at Sandford Orchards. We knew... Read More

We are absolutely thrilled to launch Red Zero, a refreshing non-alcoholic version of our award-winning Devon Red, with only 0.5% alcohol. Red Zero has been created by extracting the alcohol from real ... Read More

‘Lost Apple’ Cider Triumph In May we swept the board at The West Country Cider Championships, with ciders we had created from long-forgotten apple varieties, discovered whilst working with the Un... Read More