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Zelaia cider house

Martindegi auzoa, 29, 20120 Hernani

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Txotx at the Zelaia cider house, with a stream of cider flowing from a large wooden kupela
Photo: Web Zelaia
A laid table with chairs in the Zelaia cider house dining room, in front of two large wooden kupelas
Photo: Zelaia
A group of friends pour cider and share dishes at a table in the Zelaia cider house
Photo: Web Zelaia
Sliced T-bone steak, rare inside, at the Zelaia cider house
Photo: Web Zelaia
Picking apples by hand in the Zelaia orchard, with a full basket in the foreground
Photo: Web Zelaia
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History and atmosphere

About Zelaia cider house

A cider maker that has been making cider for three generations, using a traditional method refined over time. From January it opens its doors to everyone who loves good cider, giving them the chance to taste its finest and enjoy food that does justice to the txotx tradition (drinking cider straight from the cask), standing beside the kupelas (casks) in good company.

Zelaia makes cider under the Euskal Sagardoa Designation of Origin (DO), including premium and organic ciders, as well as PetNat sparkling ciders, fruit ciders and organic apple juice, which it sells through its online shop.

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From tree to bottle

Zelaia’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.

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.

What you can buy

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Its bottles

Zelaia’s ciders

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What it offers

Services and facilities

Services

At the table

Visits and sales

Getting there

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Opening hours

Zelaia cider house opening hours

22 January to 30 April

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
20:00–24:00
Wednesday
20:00–24:00
Thursday
20:00–24:00
Friday
13:30–17:00 20:00–24:00
Saturday
13:30–17:00 20:00–24:00
Sunday
Closed

1 May to 29 May

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday
20:00–24:00
Friday
13:30–17:00 20:00–24:00
Saturday
13:30–17:00
Sunday
Closed

2027 season, 22 January to 29 May. Until April: Tuesday to Thursday, dinner (20:00-24:00); Friday and Saturday, lunch (13:30-17:00) and dinner (20:00-24:00); closed Sundays and Mondays. In May: Thursday, dinner; Friday, lunch and dinner; Saturday, lunch only, at the same times. Bookings by phone.

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 Zelaia cider house

Martindegi auzoa, 29, 20120 Hernani 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 Zelaia

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

People with glasses of cider under the roof of the Plaza Berria in Hernani, among the Euskal Sagardoa tents and the Topa! Sagardo Eguna banners Photo: Berriak Hernaniko Merkatari eta Ostalaritza Elkartea

Festivals and events

Hernani debuts its Sagardo Eguna with some 320 glasses

The town’s eight cider houses closed the 14th Salt Cod Week in the Plaza Berria, which honoured Joxe Mari Taberna (jury) and Erriguarda (public). The organisers want to do it again

Via Berriak 1 min read

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