News and the season
What’s happening in the cider houses and around cider: the txotx season, festivals, awards and cider culture.
Festivals and events
Photo: Pantxika Maitia / Sagartzea
Gabriel Durruty will lead a visit to the Abbadia orchard in Hendaye this Sunday, and on 8 November the association will press local varieties at Lurrama
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The Gijón fair brought together 346 ciders from 124 cider makers in 35 countries and handed out 223 awards; Asturias takes 21, the Basque Country 19 including a Premium for Kuartango, and France tops the table
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Drought and heat leave around 1.5 million kilos, with more fruit inland than on the coast, smaller apples and the highest sugar levels in twenty years
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Sagardoetxea is organising two free guided tours, booking required, of the press being restored by the Dolareak project, as part of the European Heritage Days
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The 26th apple harvest festival filled Plaza Foru on Sunday with ciders from ten cider houses, sagar dantza, pintxos and the traditional community toast
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Chef Fernando González, of La Revelía, receives the Sagardo Laguna as ambassador of Bizkaia cider at the ceremony held in Amorebieta-Etxano
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The Usurbil cider house opened its season on 15 January with two former Real Sociedad players and a reunion of the squad that won the league in 1981 and 1982
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Dolarea, the Navarre cider makers’ association, presented in Lekunberri a season of some 150,000 litres, made mostly from local apples, with Saturdays in February and March almost fully booked
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The Beasain-born forensic doctor, named ambassador of Goierri cider, called the first txotx in Zerain on the day the district’s four cider houses opened; this year they have made 125,000 litres from local apples
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Gari and Beñat, musicians from Agurain, gave the first txotx in Ascarza at the start of an Álava season that brings fewer litres than last year but, according to the cider makers, a good-quality harvest
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Private coaches arriving in Hernani on Saturdays from 24 January to 9 May may only stop on the Ibaiondo industrial estate, with a prior booking and a fee of 60 or 100 euros, while the Provincial Council adds extra services on the lines from San Sebastián
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The Basque team’s pelota players gave the “Gure Sagardo Berria” cry at the Astigarraga cider house during the 33rd Sagardo Berriaren Eguna, at which the Euskal Sagardoa DO presented a harvest of 3.1 million certified litres
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