Our Selection for 2006!
First off we have our favorite that we have been pressing since 1996 our Country Apple Cider! Which is 100% natural has no added sugar or preservitives!!
Closely followed by our Raspberry Apple Cider that is 100% natural aswell! Both our Ciders come in two different sizes a 1/2 gallon or a 375 liter bottle.
Spice Cider
Chujuro Cooking Asian Pear Cider
We also offer two different types of vinegar a Asian Pear Vinegar and a Raspberry Vineger.
Syrup too.
Check out our Farmer's Markets Displays!
And Yes We do Sample our Sweet Products!!
Now It gets Good!
2007 Additions:
Cobblestone:
Is great smooth Hard Cider that tastes a lot like champagne with apple overtones! It has also been called or Draft style cider!
Mead:
Tastes like honey with out the sugar! A great natural blend that is unique to the Northwest!
Everything from 2006:
Fools Gold
Fools Gold is a melomel. It tastes like apple with mead overtones. Great for mead lovers or thoughs curious about it!
Wet Rock
Wet Rock has a light citrus flavor that is very refreshing this drink is great for picnics!
Rocky Meadow
This has a sweet Jonagold apple flavor.
Honey Apple Cider
Apple tart - but Honey sweet great creation!
Quarry Stone
This one has a gravenstein tart flavor that explodes in your mouth!
Rock Hard
Has a Full apple flavor that is only slightly sweet much like a stout.
Skipping Stone
Semi sweet Raspberry-Apple cider for easy drinking!
Sweet Rapberry Wine
This is our most requested! Its a dessert wine that is really sweet a small glass goes really far!
Rockridge Orchards Winery
If it looks like we're a bit cramped its because we are! We are building a tasting room in the near future and expanding because the demand has been so great!
Our New Winery opens June of 2007 Come see us when we can stetch out!
The following are the steps to making sweet apple cider:
After washing, we grind the apples into pummace.
Then press the apple pummace, using a rack and cloth press that produces about 50 gallons an hour.
All our cider is hand crafted. Labeling and filling each bottle.
Hard Ciders start out as sweet cider. Adding yeast they are fermented approx 90-120 days and when finished handled in a similiar fashion.
Pour from the settling tank into individual bottles.
Hand label front and back.
Sleeve the caps and they're ready to go home.