News and the season
What’s happening in the cider houses and around cider: the txotx season, festivals, awards and cider culture.
Awards and competitions
The Astigarraga cider house has been named international cider house of the year at a prestigious competition in Michigan
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Cider culture
Although we tend to associate cider with Asturias, Basque cider is also well worth trying.
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Txotx season
Hundreds of txotx fans head to Hernani or Astigarraga for a round of drinks before lunch and then carry on the party afterwards
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Guides and days out
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Festivals and events
We have talked a lot about the taste for Basque cider in the USA. For us in particular, it came as a shock to find, back in distant 2010, an article in the New York Times in which the critic Eric Asimov (an old acquaintance of our website and, yes, a relative of the scientist, writer and creator of the “Three Laws of Robotics”, Isaac Asimov) recommended a Basque cider for Thanksgiving.
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Txotx season
The mayors of Hernani and Astigarraga met officials from the institutions to address the collateral damage of this activity
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Guides and days out
Cider houses are one of the jewels of Gipuzkoa’s cuisine. Their classic menu and the unrivalled feeling of drinking cider at the txotx (straight from the cask) make up one of the great food experiences of San Sebastián and its surroundings.
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News
Part of the surplus will go on works already under way, such as the extension of the riverside park
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Festivals and events
Urdaburu Mendizale Elkartea has organised a lunch at the Larregain cider house for 9 March. Participants will meet at Urdaburu’s premises (Juan de Olazabal 23) at 8.30 in the morning, as they will first walk a 14.5-kilometre route with 800 metres of ascent, taking about 5 hours.
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Cider culture
The tradition of cider in the Basque Country goes back a long way and has little to do with the cod and steak menu it now depends on. This low-alcohol drink, which was fermented for family consumption and boomed thanks to whaling, now faces new challenges
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Cider culture
This popular drink from the north is embarking on the revolution already seen in wine, beer and vermouth
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Gastronomy
Consumption of this type of drink in Spain is gaining ground at home and competing with white wine and beer in restaurants
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