A NEW service from the British Library allows users to search through an online map of Dorset for old recordings of songs and stories.…
CIDER made by award-winning West Dorset cider maker Nick Poole is on sale for the first time in shops and pubs.
Unsurprisingly, it’s proving popular – a decade of hard and thoughtful work has gone into it.
Mr Poole set up West Milton Cider Club near Bridport 10 years ago – the video above shows the early days of the club – and he founded the now famous Powerstock Cider Festival.
CIDER makers have bid farewell to a nuclear submarine once commanded by Melplash orchard owner Rupert Best. HMS Sceptre is due to be be decommissioned later this year, so it was thought fitting at this year’s Royal Bath & West Show to mark the end of a unique liaison with…
CIDER THROWING isn’t a Dorset thing. Not yet, anyway. I say not yet, because I suspect it’s one of those things that – once you’ve seen it done, or even just read about it – you’ll feel irresistibly impelled to try yourself. Probably when you’ve already had a bit of cider… which could…
THERE’S been a record number of entries into the cider, perry and apple juice classes at this year’s Royal Bath & West Show. “A final total of 382,” said Rupert Best of Melplash near Bridport, who runs the Orchards & Cider Pavilion at the show in Shepton Mallet in Somerset from…
WHEN your Government’s in trouble and you are fighting a long and protracted war, why not raise the duty on cider and tax the peasants? It’s happened before. In 1643, during the English Civil War, the rate imposed was one shilling and threepence (1/3d) a hogshead, and a hogshead was 54…
NICK POOLE is a man who likes a challenge. Which is good, because, as challenges go, persuading the French that our food and drink is better than theirs is a pretty big one. You might even say, impossible. Nick began by founding the West Milton Cider Club, to revive the…
