Our Craft
Trust The Man With the Beard
Innovative in our thoughts and established in our practices, showcasing elegance and flavours using traditional methods.
We are a hands-on, Award-winning, operated craft cidery and farm, based in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside.
We keep the cider making process as natural and simple as possible at every stage; our ciders are hand crafted from 100% apple juice and all are gluten-free and vegan friendly.
We’re driven by our passion for the highest quality ciders, bridging tradition with innovation to produce a range of delectable offerings for today’s experienced and novice cider drinkers!
"from orchard to glass..."
AWARD WINNING CIDER
Hitchcox Cider - producing award winning ciders for 2024
We're proud to say that every drop of Hitchcox Cider is the real deal!
All of our ciders are made from hand selected apples, grown on our working farm & from established local orchards, some have been established for over 50 years!
We strive to keep alive the notion that you can still successfully create and maintain an agriculturally based business. We grow apples. We also follow a natural method of winemaking (yes, cider is wine—same exact fermentation process, different fruit), which complements the low impact/sustainable practices we employ in the orchard. With some help from mother nature, we grow, press, and prepare small-batch ciders with no
artificial additives or flavourings.
We are experienced cider makers at Hitchcox Cider, we use traditional pressing methods using a 1971 cloth press to extract the best from our produce. Whilst this is labour and time intensive, it is a pace we keep with nature, to the salvaged walls of our cidery. We embed this philosophy and the tried-and-true methods of time before us to create pure, fresh, genuine cider.
We have experienced growth through the consistency of good quality products, events, sustainability and positive word of mouth, enabling us to grow in reputation and now proud to be Oxford’s longest-running cider company. By allowing the apples to speak for themselves, their authentic, unique characteristics shine through for you to enjoy.
let me introduce...
Toby Hitchcox
Hitchcox Cider was founded by Toby Hitchcox an impressive character and an impressive beard with a cider repertoire that only a well travelled man with a genuine passion that he turned into an award winning business.
It all started with £60 in his pocket, a backpack and a one-way ticket to New Zealand – this is where the love story with cider began!
“I will never forget fruit picking on a farm in New Zealand, near Nelson, Motueka, the sun beaming on me with a subtle breeze. We were so remote that all I could hear were the whispers of other pickers around me … being amongst the orchards is still the only place my senses are on overload and my passion for apple and pear orchards becomes ignited, its when you know that you’re doing what you were born to do”
The time came to return to England, but the New Zealand experience never left him. He eventually set up Orchard Cottage Farm and started to plan out the business from his boyhood home in Oxfordshire.
Toby planted 400 trees on his farm and submersed himself in researching the art and craft of cider making. With barrels of enthusiasm, hard work and dedication Hitchcox Cider was born!
Toby had a dream; he literally planted a seed to grow a business.
Our Traditional Range
"Keep it Real"
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