Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry Co

15/09/2026

It's a fabulous year for pears. The hot sunny weather creates brilliant sugar levels in the fruit and the excellent deep roots of a pear tree help the tree thrive even in drought conditions. We were proud to be able to speak to Tom Jeffreys at The Telegraph in more detail about perry pears, growing them, and making perry from them. 🍐

Perry is itself a whole world with as much complexity, mystery and flavours as c***r, or indeed w**e or b**r. 🍎 Yet it is so difficult to find due to the impracticalities of producing it and the not insignificant challenges of growing the pears. You can take your first steps into the world of perry by heading to our webshop where we have put together a selection box of the best of our range. 🥂

Discover perry in person at the UK's only Perry Festival in just two weeks time at the Malvern Autumn Show Malvern Shows. 🌳

Big thanks to Mark Hopper of the NACM for connecting Tom to us and sharing the news about the quality of pears this year.

You can read the piece here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/17c9b46d02074930

08/09/2026

Ross C***r Festival 2026! 🥳🪅🪩 After so much preparation, we can't believe it's all over. It was such an amazing weekend, thank you so much to everyone who came along and made it so fun. Most importantly, thank you to our wonderful team of volunteers who make it all happen. We couldn't do it without you! ❤️ It's hard to sum up the weekend in only 20 photos, but here are a few that we love!

Not only did we have lots of c***r fun, we raised money for charity too! Through guessing the weight of the massive pumpkin and the rare apple juice auction, you guys raised £135 for Cancer Research UK!

A massive thank you goes to the brilliant c***rmakers, musicians, food vendors and craft stallholders who dedicated their time to making our festival a success. 💛

Ross C***r Fest 2027 dates will be announced soon, so keep your eyes peeled! 👀

We have just dropped all the c***r and perry released at the festival on our online shop, including a special mixed case. You know what to do! 🏃

05/09/2026

We are having the best weekend at Ross Fest 2026! We still have Saturday night and Sunday day time to enjoy, and we are loving the atmosphere at the farm this year! 💛

Just a reminder that tomorrow, entry to the festival is FREE. If you haven't managed to make it along to the farm yet, why not pop in tomorrow for the closing day.

As well as a line dancing workshop, morris dancing, music, and a guided orchard walk with Albert at 2pm, we will have an Autumn Craft Market on site! Running from 11-4pm, come along and browse lovely goods and craft including crochet, ceramics and jewellery. Stalls will be in the c***r barn, the talks marquee and the pavillion.

Our c***r bar will be open until the early evening and food will be available from KHUNMAE THAI KITCHEN Tim Hanks
Viking Fries Ltd Broome Farm B&B and Cabins and Yee Yee's South East Asian Kitchen. 🍎🍴

Come and join us! ☺️

04/09/2026

Raison d'Être day was a beautiful one. More than 40 venues across the UK celebrated with our favourite c***r on their taps and shelves and at Broome Farm, the festival warm-up C***r Club 2026 was a huge success! We had an absolutely incredible night with you all. Thank you for coming to celebrate us and 8 of our new c***r and perry releases. ❣️ With an amazing accompanying menu from Broome Farm B&B and Cabins, last night was an absolute cracker.

White Norman 🍏
Saycell's Unknown Pear Perry 🍐
Thorn Perry. 🍐
Barland Perry. 🍐
Styre Wilding. 🍎
Somerset Redstreak. 🍎
Autumn C***r. 🍁
Raison d'Être 2024. 💛

There are still a few festival tickets available! We're looking forward to seeing you.

25/08/2026

Raison d'Être 2024 Launch Day is just over one week away, on 03/09/26. More than forty venues across the UK will celebrate the annual release of our very favourite c***r. Absolutely massive thank you to all of them for joining in, our team for making this happen and our epic distribution partners **rltd, ***r and ***r for getting Raison out there!

For the full map, head to rossc***r.com/r24 but here they are in random order...

Sheffield -
Crewe -
Manchester -
Hereford - **rhouse
Durham -
Durham -
Hereford - .bottle.shop
Chester - **rplacehq
Online -
Berkeley -
New Mills -
Cambridgeshire - ***rinsideraus
Hackney, London - ***r
Heaton Moor - **rs
Ossett -
Nottingham -
Hornchurch -
Sheffield -
High Peak - **eandb**r
Vauxhall, London -
Mitcheldean -
Plymouth -
Dunham Massey -
Lewes - ***r_barn
Birmingham - **es
Southwark, London - ***rhouse
Bridport - .bridport
Camden, London -
Stourbridge -
Stroud - **ecompany
Stroud -
King's Cross, London -
Southampton -
Brighton -
Herne Hill, London -
Romford -
Shrewsbury -
Edinburgh -
Glasgow - **rshop
Glasgow -
Leith -
Edinburgh - **es
Peterstow -

22/08/2026

It's my birthday, and I'm delighted to celebrate it by reading Laura Hadland's wonderful historical review of the Barland pear on ***r_review! This variety has been used for making the highest quality perry since at least 1656, and plausibly even earlier. And in under two weeks time, at the C***r Festival we will release our 2025 vintage single variety Barland perry.

It's a floral, full bodied and immensely drinkable dry semi-sparkling perry. Barland somehow manages to be so many things at once. There's super soft tannins, only teasing at bitterness. There's juicy, limey acidity that never becomes too sour. And the body of the drink knitting it all together is more-ish whilst never being too sweet. Wonderful.

These trees are remarkable to me. How have we only made two single varieties in my time working here with Dad? Did he ever even make SVs of Barland before? Our 2017-2018 blend, the Blakeney, Barland and Bartestree, did win First Prize at Putley in 2019 so it isn't like we wasted them! Yet the 2022 Barland was so inconspicuous as to be bottled in a 500ml and hidden amongst that range. It quickly became clearly the very best of them, so when we saw a large crop in the trees in what was a stellar growing season last year, the excitement began.

Two years ago I posted a video showing me, Dad and Martin cutting a fireblight infested interloper out of these Barland trees. The root system had managed to throw out a second trunk that in all my beloved father's time taking care of the trees, there had never been the urgency to remove. I'm glad for that now as it shows with the utmost proof that Barland is resistant to fireblight.

Tall, powerful, vigorous trees, resistant to fireblight, that crop well, and the pear is easy and reliable to work with. The Perry is of supreme quality and the provenance is near on four hundred years. Who's up for planting more?

20/08/2026

Ross Fest 2026 is just two weeks away. We're launching some of the best c***rs we have ever made at it. There's still time to drop everything and spend a weekend camping in our orchards, where the hardest decision you'll have to deal with is "what do I drink next of the fifty c***rs and perries" infront of me?

Tickets are at rossc***r.com/c***rfest

19/08/2026

Ross C***r Fest is just over two weeks away!! Come and join us at Broome Farm B&B and Cabins for our annual celebration of c***r.

A local farm is preparing to stage the ‘Ross C***r Festival’ with barns being transformed into a music venue, dance floor, bar area and a food court.

Read more in the comments.

18/08/2026

BRAND NEW C***R. Our C***r Festival at Broome Farm B&B and Cabins is barely two weeks away and if you're looking for more reasons why you should drop everything and come, here's the start.

It'll be your first chance to taste our third collaboration with the wonderful people at Nightingale C***r Company! Yes, that's right, Dabinett/Bramley is back with a bang. Equal parts Herefordshire Dabinett meeting Kentish Bramley, this c***r was uber popular when we first made it... way back in 2019!! Five years on we wanted to revisit this beautifully balanced c***r - showing that Bramley has all the depth and character to play with the classics.

And thanks to the power of collaboration, this is our first c***r ever that is in a can! Naturally conditioned just the same as in the bottle and the keg. If you don't need a whole bottle, then these gorgeous 440ml's are your perfect choice. Available from 03/09/26.

This c***r is just one of a dozen new c***rs launching at Rossfest this year. We don't want to give away too many surprises, so for now here's just one more teaser: on the keg bar will be one precious 20L keg of 'Stang Ru', our first ever single variety from this classic Breton bittersweet. How does it taste? You'll have to come to find out!

🪩 Ross C***r Festival
🗓️ Friday 4th - Sunday 6th September
🌳 Broome Farm, Peterstow, Ross-on-Wye, HR9 6QG
🎟️ rossc***r.com/c***rfest

15/08/2026

Drought stress is now visible in parts of our established orchards, particularly on trees with a decent crop. Fruit is being shed now, underripe and unusable. That happens every year but feels particularly upsetting this season, as after a summer of scorching dry heat, I empathise deeply with trees that are fed up.

It's not all the way through the orchard. In the centre the orchard is denser, the sun blocked by the trees, there's even patches of green grass. Preserved by a canopy that keeps temperatures lower. These trees also had a little tough start to the year from a bit of ermine moth damage, but the moths never quite reach a catastrophic level as we've got plenty of happy predators in our orchard.

Looking forward to harvest. Expecting to see a similar season to last year in general but it's our 'off' year which means a lot of varieties are taking a break.