Tour: Scottish Champagne Method Cider – make your own bottle

Description

Christian Stolte is making keeved Champagne Method cider from Scottish castle garden apples, at a steading near Maryculter. Picture by Kath Flannery

Tours

Visit our internationally award-winning cidery

• learn how to press and ferment apples
• learn all about the Champagne Method, how to riddle and disgorge, about tirage and dosage
• take home your own bottle of Champagne Method Seidear
• bring your own apples and take home your own juice.
  (Or wait a year, and we will make your own, personal cider, read more.)

We would be delighted to welcome you and your friends at the Seideary!

The experience will take about two hours. We host groups of 2 up to 8 people. Please select ¨local pickup” at checkout. You can contact us through the links below for details.

The event will be in Maryculter, a 15 minutes drive from Aberdeen.

Previous guests commented on our tour:

Spent a fascinating couple of hours yesterday evening with Christian at Seidear as part of the Provenance Festival 2023 making our own bottles of Champagne method cider

After learning about the process we each donned safety glasses to choose a bottle from the racks before freezing the neck and dramatically disgorging the sediment before corking and caging.

I also brought along some apples from my garden which we pressed for juice.

A fascinating event – my own apple juice tastes great and I look forward to sampling the cider I bottled in a couple of weeks.