Lost Orchards Cider

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Award winning Scottish Cider, made in Scotland from apples grown and pressed in Dundee

We are Lost Orchards and we are shaking up the cider industry by making award winning cider by replanting Scotland’s Lost Orchards.

Since the 12^th century, orchards scattered with juicy apples, were a popular sight in Scotland. Globalisation and lower transport costs lead to cheaper imports from overseas and the orchards were lost. We’re looking to reverse this process, one sip at a time and restore a traditional part of our much-loved heritage and countryside.

Our mission is to bring Scotland’s orchards back, one sip of cider at a time.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and nothing is truer when it comes to Lost Orchards, a cider created at East Adamston Farm, near Dundee by a 4^th generation family farmer Andrew Husband and his business partner Angus Morrison.

The Lost Orchards business was born from a collective vision to use the apples from the orchards on the farm, to create a premium Scottish cider and it also appealed to the joint founder’s vision of replanting orchards which have been disappearing throughout Scotland over the last century– to date they have already planted 5000 trees.

East Adamston Farm which the Husband’s have farmed since the 1940’s, already grows and supplies blackcurrants for Ribena and produces Katy apples from their apple orchard. The apples are picked during harvest and freshly pressed at the newly installed ‘Lost Orchards Cidery’.

Co Founder, Angus Morrison said ‘We have created first and foremost a Scottish premium brand original apple cider which we have developed further to include two fruit varieties – Scottish Red Berries and Lime and Scottish Dark Berries. Currently, we are reaching out to the on-trade and enjoying the response from the industry and receiving great and positive feedback. In its first year the brand has already won a Gold Medal at The  International Cider Awards at The Guildhall in London in the modern cider class.

We are ethically conscious and are constantly looking to improve on our sustainability and trace-ability. ’

Co-founder Andrew Husband ‘I have a passion for fruit growing and it was  whilst watching my 80 year old father pressing apples for apple juice on an old wooden press, that the penny dropped. I planted the first orchard in 2012 and as a keen cider drinker, I felt there was a lack of quality premium ciders on the market and I wanted to develop our own.  I also wanted Lost Orchards to reflect the taste and freshness of Scottish produce. I harvest our apples at their optimum ripeness and they are pressed in our onsite Cidery within 24 hours, to capture the full flavour and aroma. We have invested heavily in purchasing state of the art pressing equipment for the Cidery and are continuing to look at new product development.

We  have formed a grower group who have already helped us plant thousands of trees over the past year and whose aim is to provide us with home grown apples for our cider for years to come. Our brand ethos; ‘For every sip we plant a pip’,  means that every bottle sold will help us to re-plant the lost orchards of Scotland and return a long forgotten national industry to the heartlands of Scotland.’

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