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My background is viticulture and winemaking, consulting to vineyard growers and winemakers in the burgeoning English Wine scene. However, I missed getting my hands dirty. Being hands on, is so important to me, and I really wanted to be producing my own wine from grape to bottle. However, here was a possibility to do something similar from apple to glass. As a winemaker you will hear me quote “wine is made in the vineyard”, in other words, you cannot make good wine from poor grapes. Surely the same would apply to apples and cider?
So, if I had not been walking my faithful friend through those orchards, would my mind have wandered and to imagine the possibilities and potential of great cider that those apples contained?
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