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: Sagardoaren Lurraldea
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
Festivals and events
Photo: Berriak Hernaniko Merkatari eta Ostalaritza Elkartea
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
Festivals and events
The Sidra de Asturias PDO and the Sandra Ibarra Foundation hold the twelfth edition at the Amandi cider maker (Villaviciosa); tickets cost €40, ten of which is a donation
Via DOP Sidra de Asturias 1 min read
Festivals and events
The 17th edition of the route pairs each Gijón cider bar with a cider maker and a cazuela; the final tasting is on 19 October at Champel and the awards are presented on the 20th at the town hall
Via LA SIDRA 2 min read
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
Via Sagartzea 2 min read
Festivals and events
The 26th apple harvest festival filled Plaza Foru on Sunday with ciders from ten cider houses, sagar dantza, pintxos and the traditional community toast
Via El Diario Vasco 2 min read
Festivals and events
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
Via Noticias de Gipuzkoa 2 min read
Festivals and events
On Sunday 5 October the herriko plaza (town square) will bring together five Navarrese cider houses, with kirikoketa at midday, and the mushroom day will fill the trinkete with fungi and mushrooms
Via Pamplona Televisión 2 min read
Festivals and events
The apple festival ended on Sunday in Foru square with the traditional cider press, some thousand bottles of cider from nine cider houses and the public toast, following a pintxo competition won by the Ikatza bar
Via El Diario Vasco 3 min read
Festivals and events
Thirty-one cider houses served the 2024 vintage by the glass in the Plaza de la Constitución, on a day that paid tribute to Elutxeta and Otsuenea and went without the usual apple growers’ stall, as they disagree with this year’s price
Via Noticias de Gipuzkoa 2 min read
Festivals and events
Plaza del Machete hosted Sagardo Eguna on Saturday with ciders from eleven cider makers, four days after the designation of origin presented the 110 ciders from its latest harvest in Vitoria-Gasteiz
Via Euskal Sagardoa 2 min read
Festivals and events
Rain moved Errenteria’s to the Alameda, Irun announced the return of its own after a year without the festival, and Usurbil’s 42nd edition was the first under new organisers
Via Noticias de Gipuzkoa 3 min read
