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Best brews
11:36am Tuesday 12th February 2008
More and more people are beginning to realise that cider is both delicious and refreshing. A huge variety of traditional ciders are now easily available to try - and many micro-breweries are springing up to produce cider. Here are three of my favourites.
Dunkerton's Premium Organic ABV 6.8% RRP £1.79 The apples that create this delicious golden cider are old varieties that come from Dunkerton's own organic orchard and processed in an old-fashioned press. The result is a smooth, semi-sweet well-rounded and very satisfying drink.
Wychwood Green Goblin Cider ABV 6.0% RRP £1.72 This bitter-sweet, carbonated cider is produced in partnership with Thatchers, the fine cider makers from Somerset who use several classic varieties of English cider apples to create this full-bodied drink, which is matured in 100-year-old oak vats for a crisp refreshing burst of rich flavours.
Aspall Dry Premier Cru Suffolk Cyder ABV 7% RRP £1.70 An award-winning sparkling cider with a delightful apple aroma and light refreshing tang delivers a remarkably dry aromatic Champagne finish.
All these ciders are available at Waitrose
Editor's choice
The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Early taste of Christmas wine
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
Dylan Moran: New Theatre, Oxford
‘I was the first person to discover that if you infected a person with Marmite, he would stand up and bark at the moon.” “Everybody under the age of 35 has the intelligence of raspberry jam.” “Children can hear vegetables hiding.”
Sleeping Beauty, Chipping Norton Theatre
There’s nothing King Couer-de-Loup likes more than a good battle: “We’ll march on King Florizel’s wet and wicked army,” he proclaims. His Queen is not so sure, however. She would rather her husband stayed around: there’s the christening of their daughter Princess Aurora to arrange for a start. And he certainly can’t go out and fight looking like that: “Your chain mail’s got a ladder in it,” she wails.
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