Has Cinema Ever Been Better Than Con Air? - (Sam Leach from Wilding Cider)

Join hosts Gabe Cook, Martyn Goodwin-Sharman and Producer Scott
as they laugh themselves to tears at the end of this episode of
the Neutral Cider Hotel!


Grant Hutchison is away this week, but the show must go on! Gabe
lets the guys know about his recent holiday where he met
Zimbabwe’s own Nyanga Craft Cider! Impressed by his wares, Gabe
got to have the best of the sun, and some wonderful cider, made
with the most high-tech equipment! Martyn’s been blending again,
but keeping stuff secret until it’s all confirmed! 


There’s positivity right out the gate as Gabe takes part in
raising funds with Drinkers for Ukraine, encouraging solidarity
brews, auctions and anything the drinks community can do to help
out in their small way. Then onto actual joy, with news brought
to the guys attention thanks to Blair, as cider makers bring back
an ancient tradition in style. And finally, Gabe gives us the
official date of the Bristol Cider Salon, so be there or be
square! (An old Americanism, apparently).


Then it's onto the interview. The guys welcome the co-founder of
one of the UK’s most name-checked cider makers, whose ciders have
graced this podcast on more than one occasion.  Having
achieved local infamy in Bristol with their small field to fork
restaurant called Birch, our guest and his wife ditched the
kitchen for the orchard to focus on creating ciders exuding grace
and skill and with a focus on the landscape they came from. 
Checking into the hotel today is Mr. Sam Leach from Wilding
Cider!


The guys chat everything including the first horse of knowledge
of the year, orcharding practices, new techniques, Russian
Oligarchs in wine, the disappearance of Clive and everything
in-between those long arms!


Then, it's onto the first listener question of the year and this
would have been perf


THE TEAM
Gabe is a cider expert: The Ciderologist / Substack
Grant owns a cider shop: Aeble Cider Shop
Martyn loves to write about cider: CiderShit

Executive Producer/Editor: Scott Riggs
Music: Billy Kennedy

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