News and the season
What’s happening in the cider houses and around cider: the txotx season, festivals, awards and cider culture.
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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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 cider house at the Galarraga farmhouse presents its 2024 Euskal Sagardoa vintage, made from its own apples, with the fourth generation of the family at the helm
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With more than 500 years of history, the Gipuzkoa cider house is committed to sustainability and culinary innovation.
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From this Monday to Wednesday, ten Basque companies from Rioja Alavesa and the txakoli and cider sectors are taking part in the sixth edition of the “Wine Paris 2025” fair.
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Montse Armendariz and Joseba Rubio, a couple from Tafalla who decided to change their lives and move to the countryside
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Amaia Barredo, the Basque Government’s Minister for Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment, has congratulated the Euskal Sagardoa Association on the progress made towards creating a Transnational Designation of Origin for Basque Cider.
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Part of the surplus will go on works already under way, such as the extension of the riverside park
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The Astigarraga cider house is the first to have registered its carbon footprint calculation, which will lead to measures to reduce and offset its environmental impact
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“Sagardoa” has been sold since 2017 under a transitional label pending a final decision from Brussels, which turned down the application at first instance last year
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Petritegi Cider House joins the txuri urdin (white and blue) family. The Gipuzkoa company and Real Sociedad have reached an agreement for it to join RS Enpresak.
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The Basque Competition Authority is investigating whether the Basque Country’s Association of Notaries and the Regulatory Council of the Euskal Sagardoa Designation of Origin have made a “collective price recommendation”.
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