We are multi award winning artisan cider and perry makers. We make whole juice draught and bottled ciders and perry using locally grown apples and pears.Since 1956 we have been making cider at our family home and now cider mill. Set within 4 acres of heritage orchards and established gardens, we are situated on the banks of the River Severn in Awre, the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.We are continuing to plant cider apple and perry pear trees at our new orchards in Blakeney, home of the famous Blakeney Red Perry pear.

We are artisan producers at the heart of Somerset’s cider-land making whole juice sparkling cider by the old English method of keeving. Apples are collected from traditional cider orchards in and around the parish of Pilton and slowly fermented for six months in our cool Victorian cellar before bottling. Pilton is available as a range of bottles and also draught in kegs. Our cider is available to buy at specialist shops and online from this site.

When we first made cider it was with the windfall from family and friends’ apple trees. We hired a scratter and a basket press and everyone gathered on a sunny Autumn morning with their bags of scrumped fruit. We used anything and everything. People brought Discovery, McIntosh Red, Golden Noble, Howgate Wonder, George Cave, Egremont Russet, Cox, Gala, Greensleaves and Grenadier. We picked apples from the wildings around the woods and fields. Much of the fruit we couldn’t identify. The kids drank the apple juice straight from the press until they got belly ache. We put the 75 litres of juice at the back of the shed and waited. By…

Award winning organic cider and perry made with traditional varieties of cider apples & perry pears pressed by us every Autumn harvest. Crafted from bud to bottle. Stockist enquiries shop@dunkertonscider.co.uk

The Hecks family have been making traditional farmhouse cider in Somerset for six generations, since 1841. In 1896, we started to sell our cider from our farm shop in Street. We make our cider by blending juice from apples all grown locally in the farm’s orchards. The cider is fermented in wooden barrels and sold draught from the wood.