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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Zoe Wood

‘Cider to the power of 10’: bumper apple harvest has UK cider makers drooling

Cider apples o the branch in Somerset on a warm late summer morning.
Cider apples in Somerset on a warm late summer morning. Photograph: Neil Phillips/Alamy

“If you love cider, this is cider to the power of 10,” says Barny Butterfield, speaking about the flavours packed by some of this year’s “special” apples.

Indeed Butterfield, the owner of Sandford Orchards, near Exeter, is buying extra tanks to increase cider production after the UK’s hottest summer on record resulted in an abundance of fruit.

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