078: Oscar Garcia Busto | Mayador, Asturias

The Mayador cider brand came about from a lot hard work and ingenuity. Manuel Busto Amandi born in 1906 founded his cider business originally as M.Busto in 1939. Between that time and 1966, Manuel’s ingenuity kept the business growing. He had a number of innovation that were ground breaking for the cider industry. From the … Read more

066: Luis Ravina Pisaca | Posma cidery, Canary Islands: Tenerife

Luis Ravina Pisaca’s title is enology or enologist, which means he is responsible for the cidermaking at Posma cidery in Tenerife, one of seven islands in the Canary Islands that are located in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwestern coast of Africa. Posma has been producing cider for 4-5 years. Luis was attending the International … Read more

064: Bartosz Gałka | Slow Flow Group, Poland

Bartosz Gałka is one of three partner at the Polish cidery “Slow Flow Group”.  Along with Łukasz Sobór, Jakub Lorek and Jakub’s father, Marcin Lorek, who makes wine and consults to this project they are helping to put Polish cider on the world map. The cidermaking tradition in Poland dates back to the 16th century, … Read more

063: Alvar Roosimaa | Jaanihanso cidery, Estonia

Alvar Roosimaa turned towards cidermaking after deciding to move out of the capital of Estonia, Tallinn. He bought a country house approximately an hour and a half to the south Tallinn with his wife Veronika. It was at this country house that the name of the cidery was found. Alvar tells the story of finding … Read more

062: Anzu Fernández, MD | La Sidra, Asturias

Who is Anzu? Anzu Fernández has been selected as Cider Chat’s pick for the Sexiest Cider Dude of 2017! This title is not given freely nor is it due to the fact that Asturias happens to have some of the biggest cider cojones around. I mean geez Louise! Roman historian Estraban said sometime back in … Read more