New Lighter Weight Bottle
Thatchers Vintage 2013 is the first of Thatchers packaged ciders to feature new lighter weight glass bottles. The new style 500ml bottle, now embossed with the Thatchers name across the shoulder, and featuring a slimmer neck, represents an 18% saving in weight. The bottle has been designed and produced by Ardagh Glass, who have supplied […]
Royal Bath And West Show
Thatchers will be at the Royal Bath and West Show again this year, hosting our Beer and Cider Tent, with our friends from Butcombe Brewery. As always, we’ve arranged some great music for you – the Polden Ridge Mountain Boys and the Somerset Paddies, and it goes without saying the very best of Somerset beer and […]
Taste Of The West Gold Medal For Our 458
A unique cider which has been created from 458 varieties of apple grown in just one Thatchers orchard, has been awarded a Gold Medal in the Taste of the West Awards 2014. Called simply Thatchers 458, this bottled cider has been crafted from apples grown in the Somerset cider maker’s celebrated Exhibition Orchard. The Taste […]
2013 Thatchers Vintage Cide
Ageing in oak vats which have been standing for over a hundred years, gives the new 2013 Thatchers Vintage Cider a unique character that reflects Thatchers hands-on approach to cider making. Just bottled, the Thatchers 2013 Vintage Cider has now begun to leave the gates of Myrtle Farm. Made from specially selected apple varieties from […]
Glastonbury Chooses Thatchers Cider
Thatchers Cider is to be the official cider of Glastonbury Festival. The announcement was made today at a visit to Thatchers’ Myrtle Farm in Sandford, Somerset, by Michael Eavis, founder of the legendary Somerset festival. The new partnership means that for the next three years Thatchers Gold will be available in all of the Festival’s […]
New Contract For Pressing Ribena’s Blackcurrants
A new three year contract has been signed between Lucozade Ribena Suntory Limited and Thatchers Cider Limited, that will see all the blackcurrants grown for Ribena in the UK pressed at Thatchers’ mill in Somerset. Thatchers has been pressing the blackcurrants for Ribena for the last seventeen years, and this new agreement marks the continuation […]