Back when Hawkes began in 2013, we launched our first ever drive to collect unloved apples, giving them new life as our flagship Urban Orchard. In 2019, in the sixth year of our drive,
received an unprecedented amount of donation and decided to do something a little different.
We want to use this cider to give back to the city that built us, so all profit made from selling this pure taste of London will be donated to Social Orchards, an urban Planting organisation focused on bringing community accessible fruit trees to deprived areas.
This is an apple-wine style cider. A style dictated by the flavours of the donated apples we received and created as naturally as possible; with no filtration, no back-sweetening and minimal preservatives. This cider has the sharpness of a Londoner navigating the Monday rush, with the enriching aroma of an earl morning East End fruit market. This is pure London cider…grown, picked, pressed, fermented and bottled in our home city. Enjoy. Less