Cider, Mead & Ginger Beer

Abel Methode Cider is made by us in small quantities, crafted from 100% apples and pears. We hand harvest tree-ripened fruit, crush it, then ferment until dry. This is quite different from your usual cider as we ferment the skins, stalks, pips and all, to maximize fruit aromatics and flavour. Abel cider is unfined and unfiltered. This basically means we allow our cider to naturally clarify via gravity to retain character. It's fermented in the bottle, like champagne. This natural carbonation gives a finer bubble which retains the aromas and flavours. Bottle fermentation adds complexity and texture, as well as giving cloudiness from the natural yeast sediment that remains.

Our cider is dry as this is the way we like to drink it - refreshing and full of flavour! ENJOY You have a couple of options when it comes to enjoying a bottle of Abel Methode Cider: EITHER...Place bottle upright in the fridge overnight, the colder the better. This will allow the natural sediment to settle to the bottom of the bottle. When you're ready to drink it, pour the clear cider (everything but the settled sediment) into a champagne flute or wine glass of your choice. OR...If you like cloudy cider, invert the bottle a couple of times then pour away!

Haweke's Bay Brewing Co. - Using an old fashioned ginger beer recipe we cold infuse mandarine flavours to create a crisp, spicy refreshing beer that you can enjoy anytime.

5.0% ABV.

There's a saying "plant pears for your heirs", which is why several years after grafting over to perry pears, we still have a limited crop. For our 2021 vintage, we have blended these tannin bombs with Taylor's Gold pears and added a few Egremont Russet apples to bring a little acidity to the blend.

The result is a smooth, creamy perry with a modest natural sweetness.

Fruit: Perry pear (unidentified), Taylor's Gold, Egremont Russet
Residual sugar: 9g/l
Aged: 6 months in oak and steel

5.7% ABV.

Made from crushed Pink Lady and
Braeburn Apples with added blueberries.

A sweet-sharp apple that with a classic apple aroma, reminiscent of ripe and waxy apples. The resulting cider is characterised by its perfume and juicy acidity. Overall perception of the cider and its finish is dry.

5.2% ABV

Made with sweet, tangy apples and fruity notes, this smooth, chewy cider with fresh apples will go perfectly with your fruit pies and other pastries.

2% ABV.

For all you citrus & botanical fans out there. A bright refreshing style that offers everything you are looking for in real cider. KAFFIR LIME, LEMON & JUNIPER

Prepare to relax.

 5.8% ABV

This complex blend of sweet, bitter and bitter apple cider apples gives a nose to the mixed aromas of fresh fruit and ripe fruit, as well as a woody, vegetal note. On the palate, it offers a full, frank and fresh attack, with a touch of astringency and a sweet bitterness.

5.0% ABV.

A generous, medium-sweet cider.

 Local Nelson apples with a touch of residual sugar that pumps the fruit to the fore. Sweeter than a K.I.S.S.

CLASSIC - 5.0% ABV

Scoundrels and Rogues - Giving someone the cold shoulder shouldn't always be a bad thing, not if it's Ice Cider anyway.  If you've never heard of one, don't be ashamed, you're not stupid, they just aren't that common.  Made from freeze-concentrated sickly sweet juice, that's fermented and aged in barrels for almost 6 months, it's a sweet, complex, intense, yet refreshing cider, which was bottled without carbonation.  Think of it as similar to a dessert wine, to be had after a meal.  Breakfast is a meal.  I don't judge.

This cider is sweet and devoid of bubbles, but you'll get over it.

The 'Poir?', or Pear Cider, is a fresh cider with refined taste, produced from three varieties of pears that come from multi centennial orchards. 

All of Pere Jules products are made from apple and pear varieties that are carefully selected from traditional orchards of tall trees in a protected area of controlled production (AOC). 

It is excellent to drink with any sea food.

Peckham's - Fresh berry against a structured cider background, with no added sugar.  This cider captures the aroma and taste of fresh, whole, Nelson boysenberries.  It's probably the only berry cider you will find made from 100% Juice.

5.4% ABV.

Hawke's Bay Brewing Co. - We've cold infused mandarine flavours into our old-fashioned ginger beer recipe for a spicy yet crisp finish.

6.0% ABV.

Pere Jules cider is produced from no less than 20 different varieties of apples. This gives it a very nice balance between the sweet, bitter and acidic varieties. All of their products are made from apple and pear varieties that are carefully selected from traditional orchards of tall trees in a protected area of controlled production (AOC).

After a fermentation process and a light filtration, it is bottled in order to naturally develop its own natural gas. This gives it the fine bubbles.