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Isastegi cider house

Aldaba-Txiki auzoa, 15-A, 20400 Tolosa

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Txotx at the Isastegi cider house, a family catching cider in their glasses from a large kupela labelled «Gorenak»
Photo: Web Isastegi
Aerial view of the Isastegi cider house buildings and tanks among meadows and hills
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A group around a table with a casserole, bread and cider beside the Isastegi kupelas
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A hand holds a glass of cider bearing the Isastegi logo in front of a kupela
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A plate of fish with green peppers on a table at the Isastegi cider house
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History and atmosphere

About Isastegi cider house

Historically, livestock farming was the main activity at the Isastegi farmhouse, although the family made cider for their own use. In 1983 they decided to make the cider house their main business. After major refurbishments and extensions, today it is a cider house with fully modernised facilities. The apples used are home-grown or come from the Tolosaldea area, as the cider house tries to buy up all the local apples. However, as apples in the Basque Country can be scarce depending on the harvest, they also bring in apples from Galicia and France.

Isastegi cider house is part of the collective quality brand

Specialities

Salt cod omelette, fried salt cod with peppers, T-bone steak (txuleta), and cheese, quince paste and walnuts for dessert, with lamb available if ordered in advance.

Isastegi has been selling its cider since 1984, made with its own apples and those of farmhouses in Tolosaldea. Its online shop sells standard and Premium Euskal Sagardoa, other ciders and cider vinegar.

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From tree to bottle

Isastegi’s own house cider

As well as a cider house, it’s a cider maker: it makes its own cider, and what’s served at the table comes from its own cellar.

Making cider since
1984

Quality labels

  • DO Euskal Sagardoa Designation of origin for natural Basque cider: only local apples from registered orchards in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, not pasteurised and with no added gas. The French Basque Country joins through the cross-border PDO, pending in the EU. The seal goes on each bottle, not on the cider maker.
  • Gorenak Collective mark of a group of Gipuzkoa cider houses (Sagardo Mahaia), created in 2011, for bottled natural cider only. Every batch is tested at the provincial Fraisoro laboratory. It does not certify where the apples come from. You can tell it by the black capsule.
  • Organic production Cider with the EU organic logo (the Euro-leaf), certified by the body in its territory: ENEEK-Ekolurra in the Basque Country, CPAEN in Navarre, an approved certifier in the French Basque Country (with the optional AB logo), COPAE, ODECA or CRAEGA.

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Opening hours

Isastegi cider house opening hours

1 January to 30 April

Monday
20:00–24:00
Tuesday
20:00–24:00
Wednesday
20:00–24:00
Thursday
20:00–24:00
Friday
14:00–18:00 20:00–24:00
Saturday
14:00–18:00 20:00–24:00
Sunday
Closed

Txotx season, January to April: dinner Monday to Saturday (20:00-24:00) and lunch Friday and Saturday (14:00-18:00); closed Sundays. On Fridays and Saturdays there is a bus from Tolosa.

Opening hours are a guide: they can change on public holidays, during holidays or from one season to the next. Check before you go.

Location

How to get to Isastegi cider house

Aldaba-Txiki auzoa, 15-A, 20400 Tolosa Open in Google Maps
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  • By car

    Look up the address in your satnav. In season, cider house car parks fill up early on Saturdays.

  • By bus

    Some bus routes run near the area. Check the timetable before you go, especially for the way back.

  • As a group

    Many cider houses arrange a coach for groups: ask when you book.

In the media

News about Isastegi

Seven people posing among shelves of bottles at Bodega Klandestina, holding Cider Week posters and programmes, next to an event banner and boxes and bottles of cider Photo: Sagardoaren Lurraldea

Festivals and events

Cider Week Astea reaches the Bidasoa with fifteen venues

From 16 to 22 November, bars and restaurants in five Gipuzkoa towns bring together local ciders and others from Brittany, Italy, Germany, Norway and Sweden. For the first time, two venues in Hondarribia are taking part

Via Sagardoaren Lurraldea 3 min read

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