...where one might get their hands on some good cider or scrumpy in Edinburgh (bonus points if it's in a flagon bottle)
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Very OT, but does anyone know...
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Posted 14 years ago #
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No certainty, but I'd suspect both Villeneuve and Cornelius over V&C or Peckhams now that there's no fancy food shop down Raeburn Place...
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Morrisons used too, as did peckhams.
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Farmer's market tomorrow am sometimes has a stall selling cider. Realfoods also, but pricey. Scotmid often has decent cider too - Westons etc. Waitrose has best range I have seen. I don't recall ever seeing cider at Cornelius.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Thanks chaps. I like the Waitrose own-label stuff, very agreeable and the Normandy stuff from Jacques is also very nice. Afraid I've sampled the Westons range and it didn't agree with my palate, specifically looking for some flagons (some half-cut agreement with a friend about trying to form a jug band!) so I'll check out a Morrisons or if not the bottle shops down in Stockbrig.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Jaques is actually Strongbow by another name... funny how they play both sides :)
Posted 14 years ago # -
ah, no I meant Jacques the bottle shop in Stockbridge! It does some good propery Normandy cidres, even if they are only 2%, they come in wine-bottle portions :)
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You get a good range of Normandy cidres in Appellation Wines of Dalry Road (just up from Haymarket), run by Ashton McCobb. Good but dear.
Hank Williams sang in his great number Lost Highway
Just of deck of cards
and a jug of wine
for a life of sin
I have paid the priceSo Kaputnik, watch yourself in that jug band. As I may have mentioned to you on The Whang in retrospect I wish I had spent more time cycling and less time drinking beer. The only time I have ever had cider was waiting at the ferry terminal in Roscoff with a group of Royal Marines I found myself camping with. They had good kit, I had Winfield Sleeping Bag from Woolworths. No tents. THey could drink many many bottles of Normandy cidre before an 8 hour sea crossing of some degree of choppiness. I couldn't.
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I wish I had spent more time cycling and less time drinking beer.
Yes we both agreed the same. Never said anything about cider though ;>
Thanks for the lead, I'll add it to my list.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Jug-pot hit at Morrisons at Ferry Road. Very good range of home-grown ciders.
Posted 14 years ago # -
You should have been at the Farmers Market this morning...
Posted 14 years ago # -
Isn't much room on the back of the road bike for 5l of cider!
Posted 14 years ago # -
Depends on what sort of a rack you have...
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On that bike - room for 2 inner tubes, some micro tyre levers and a multitool :)
Posted 14 years ago # -
Of no help in your flaggon search (although in the past I've bought such stuff in Waitrose and Cornelius [a one-off Christmas special I think]), but hopefully useful info if you like your cidre normandie:
The epicerie downstairs at L'Escargot Bleu on Broughton Street stocks some superb Normandy cider in 75cl bottles. Both brut and doux.
Make sure it's well chilled when you come to open it though. I opened one bottle that had only been in the fridge for an hour or so and still have a cork mark on the kitchen ceiling to show for it. Lucky I wasn't leaning over the bottle at the time...
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Thanks PS. Will check that out, I've got quite a taste for the Normandy stuff too. Much nicer than the 2l of scrumpy I've got to get through to get my jug!
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