Rochdale - Our Classic Pear Cider is brewed using Rochdale's authentic recipe and pure glacial water.  A bouquet of fresh, sun-ripened fruit combined with a subtle dryness and gentle effervescence to ensure a flowing texture is maintained from the first sip.

Rochdale - Our classic Apple cider is brewed using Rochdale's authentic recipe and pure glacial water.  A touch of fruity sweetness from the distinctive taste of tree-ripened apples and that classic dry tartness for a smooth finish.

Zeffer - It's hard to beat a classic crisp apple cider.  This was the first cider we crafted and like all good originals, it's stayed true to form.  A bit like a Ford Cortina or timeless white shirt, our Crisp Apple is straight up and enduring.  It's dry, tangy, green apple goodness and carefully crafted by our cidermaking team each session.

5.0% ABV.

If you're looking for the most summery drink possible, you've just found it.

This is an explosion of tropical deliciousness, a taste sensation like no other.  When you are drinking this, you are transported to white sand and a beach bar.

Notes of pineapple, guadeloupe melon, banana, apricot and peach.  Seriously juicy and heading on for medium in style, it's got a cheeky zippy finish keeping it perfectly balanced.

Made by co-fermenting our fat and super ripe quinces with Harry Masters' Jersey apples from the 2023 harvest, there is nothing else like this.

Alcohol: 5.2% abv

Fruit: Quince and Harry Masters' Jersey Apples

Style: Off dry/medium

Scoundrels and Rogues - Sometimes, bigger is better.  Made by the most irrepressible Scoundrels and Rogues in North Canterbury.  This 2016 Imperial Cider is made from one batch selected out of that year Pleasantly Corrupted cider.  It spent eighteen months in barrel, meaning it is intense, it has got a character, and despite its 10.9% alcohol, it is so drinkable it could only be evil.

This cider is handmade and mildly offensive, but you'll get over it.

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!

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

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

Scoundrels and Rogues - Sometimes, bigger is better.  Made by the most irrepressible Scoundrels and Rogues in North Canterbury, this Pear cider was made from the contents of only a few pear trees, fermented in barrels, and then promptly forgotten about for six months.  It gives new meaning to the term rustic, as it's made in a very traditional French farmhouse style, with a strong pear character.  You may love it, you may hate it, but i'm not sure i'm too bothered either way.

This Pear cider is rustic and funky, but you'll get over it.

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.

Sparkling medium dry cider. Full bodied English style cider made from a variety of traditional cider apples.

5% ABV

This cider is the 3rd release of our original style, made with a touch of sweetness, to balance out the full body. It has spent 18 months in barrel, and is comprised of a blend of both dry and sweet cider batches, from a mix of heritage and desert apples. This blend gives it an impressive intensity, rich tannins, and a balanced sweetness, that should not be cloying. Once the juice is pressed it is left to undergo wild fermentation in old French oak barrels. Post ferment, the cider is aged in barrel, on lees, to build complexity and to soften the tannins. It’s designed to be a cider that delivers more than just sweetness and a light apple flavour, it’s designed to deliver a balance between tannins, sweetness, and alcohol.

This cider is handmade and mildly offensive, but you'll get over it.

8.5% ABV

Savor the essence of New Zealand orchards in every sip of our Peach and Berry Cider.

Our take on a peach bellini, it’s crafted with Hawke’s Bay apples, luscious Central Otago peaches and balanced with the vibrant character of boysenberries and raspberries.

This cider delivers a harmonious fusion of orchard freshness.
Cheers to a taste of nature’s finest harvest!

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