Awards and competitions
Izeta wins the 24th Gipuzkoa Cider Competition
The Aia cider house beats Zapiain and Altzueta in an edition judged by sommeliers and tasters, with the awards presented at Albaola
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News and the season
News from the cider world
What’s happening in the cider houses and around cider: the txotx season, festivals, awards and cider culture.
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- Festivals and events
Lekunberri celebrates its 20th Sagardo Eguna with Navarrese cider and mushrooms
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
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- Festivals and events
The 25th Sagar Uzta fills Astigarraga: 1,500 kilos of apples and the first must of 2025
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
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- Txotx season
Euskal Sagardoa expects between 6 and 7 million kilos of apples, with the price still to be agreed
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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- Festivals and events
The 38th San Sebastián Sagardo Eguna draws more than 4,000 people, without the apple growers’ stall
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
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- Awards and competitions
Lizeaga wins the 51st Azpeitia Cider Competition in a tie-break
The San Sebastián cider house tied with Aburuza on 131 points and came out on top in a second tasting by the jury; Alorrenea came third
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- News
Altuna, in Urnieta, launches its first Designation of Origin cider made from its own apples
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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- Festivals and events
Topa! Gasteiz: Euskal Sagardoa presents its 2024 harvest in Álava for the first time
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
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- Festivals and events
A spring of Sagardo Egunak: Errenteria, Irun and Usurbil
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
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- Txotx season
Txotx 2025 in review: online bookings and guided tours on the rise
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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- Awards and competitions
Zapiain wins two golds at Cider World in Frankfurt; silver for Zabala and Isastegi
The Astigarraga cider house took gold with its Euskal Sagardoa Premium and with its ice cider Bizi-Goxo, while Zabala and Isastegi won a silver each
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News
Petritegi, tradition and modernity in the service of cider, takes its legacy to China
With more than 500 years of history, the Gipuzkoa cider house is committed to sustainability and culinary innovation.
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