The London Cider House — a shop and daytime bar showcasing the finest ciders and perries — is opening in Borough Market this week.
Photographs: The Fine Cider Company
It’s a collaboration between:
- Felix Nash, founder of The Fine Cider Company
- Ted Dwane, cider maker and member of the band Mumford and Sons
- the family behind New Forest Cider
- and legendary cider maker Tom Oliver, of Oliver’s Cider and Perry.
The London Cider House will offer walls covered in bottle shelves, adorned with dozens and dozens of ciders and perries from across the country.
It is, says Felix Nash, “a little gem tucked away in the heart of the city, a quiet corner amongst the busy market, and building off the work of the New Forest, it will be the place to come if you have never tried fine cider like this before. Where people can have that revelation of how good cider can be.”
All over the country, wonderful things have been happening in small cider, reminiscent of the rise of natural wine and craft beer. Small orchard-based makers have begun resetting the reputation of cider, reclaiming what it once used to be: a refined and fascinating thing, Laurie Lee’s ‘Wine of Wild Orchards’.
