Rose celebrates the double
June 02 2010
Rose was unable to be present to receive the award in person so a representative from Mill House Cider Museum collected it for her from Giles Chichester MEP and Nicholas Bonham, Master of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers.
Rose Grant’s Dry Cider from Blandford in Dorset has made it two in a row by winning the Pewterers’ Cup for the Champion Farmhouse Cider at this year’s Royal Bath and West Show.
More than 130 different ciders were entered into the competition and Rose walked off with the cup for what judges described at its ‘good clean taste.’
Rose is a retired electronic engineer, now wholly involved with apple growing and cider making as a second career.
'This has come about as a natural progression from my cider making as a hobby in the 20 years or so before I 'retired',' she said. 'It was a hobby in which I became more and more absorbed. The fascination of making 20 to 30 demijohns of cider from all manner of different apples each year, though I did not realise it at the time, was in fact a perfect apprenticeship for retirement. Success and failure as a method of learning is best when carried out on a small scale!'
Her website is appropriately called Ciderbyrosie.com
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