News and the season
What’s happening in the cider houses and around cider: the txotx season, festivals, awards and cider culture.
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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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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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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Álava, Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, the French Basque Country and Navarre each opened a cask in San Sebastián’s Plaza de la Constitución, at an event that marks the path towards extending the Euskal Sagardoa Designation of Origin
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The Designation of Origin presented the season in an orchard in Altzo, with picking already under way and price negotiations with the apple growers “on track”
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Gipuzkoa’s cider houses end the season with 28% more guided tour bookings, 37% more tables booked online and 9% more cider sold online
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Txotx season
Bookings are exceeding expectations, with customers booking well ahead and already looking for tables in March and April.
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Txotx season
From 15 February, the stretch of the street near Eroski will be closed to vehicles from 12:00. The measure aims to avoid crowding and make access easier for residents.
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Txotx season
In-person and telephone support and the setting up of the Purple Tent aim to prevent and respond to sexist assaults at weekends in February and March.
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Txotx season
The towns of Hernani and Astigarraga have joined forces to launch a campaign calling for a change in the txotx season model.
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