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Join Paracombe Premium Perry for a personal educational tour and tasting at their shed door, located on the family orchard Est 1932. They will take you through a comprehensive tree-to-bottle experience of how pears are grown, how they graft trees to change the variety, how they store fruit all year round, how they grade fruit for the fresh market and also then loo k at the entire process from fruit to bottle on production of their Cider, Perry and fruit juices. This tour will leave no questions unanswered, amaze you with the science behind every action and the work required to produce world class produce. It will fundamentally change how you view fresh food going forward!

Join founder and cider maker Damian McArdle for a fun filled “Blend your own” experience. Damian will take you on the journey of blending a base cider to your taste, explaining every step along the way. Use a range of different products to adjust mouthfeel, flavour, sweetness and learn tricks for use at home on your cider journey! Finish with judging analysis of your product to better understand different aspects of your finished product. This experience is fun, engaging and absolutely no experience is required!