Cider

The juicy history of the apple

17 August 2024 9:00 am

Greeks, Romans, Norse and Celts all rooted their fertility myths in the apple – and through its association with the Garden of Eden it came to symbolise irresistible temptation

More than one bad apple: the sorry demise of English cider

14 August 2021 9:00 am

Can you imagine if, in the 20th century, wine producers in France had switched from a product made (almost) entirely…

Charles Moore’s Notes: If peers aren’t to be elected, they should be impossible to get rid of

1 August 2015 9:00 am

Obviously when one attends what the papers call ‘cocaine-fuelled orgies’, one expects to find several members of the peerage present,…

‘The plan was to pour the apple juice into an oak hogshead, freshly emptied of its whisky’

The birth of a barrel of cider

6 December 2014 9:00 am

The fabulous October weather is now just a memory but it made for a golden, old-fashioned apple day down in…