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Judged 19th June 2009 at the Three Counties Show, Malvern

Class 1 Dry Cider

1. Ross on Wye
2. Rosie’s Triple D
3. Bridge Farm
Highly Commended – Tony Jones

Class 2 Medium/Sweet Cider

1. Oliver’s Cider & Perry
2. Equal second, Sheppy’s Cider and Once Upon a Tree
Highly Commended – Henney’s Cider

Class 3 Dry Perry

1. Ross on Wye
2. Orchard’s Cider & Perry
3. Barbourne Cider

Class 4 Medium/Sweet Perry

1. Heck’s
2. Butford Organic
3. Ralph’s

Class 5 – Bottle Fermented / bottle conditioned Cider or Perry

1. Oliver’s Cider & Perry
No other prizes awarded in this category.

Best in Show (by a hairsbreadth from Ross on Wye Dry) Oliver’s Medium Cider
Best producer in Herefordshire – Oliver’s
Best producer in Worcestershire – Barbourne
Best producer in Gloucestershire – Orchard’s
Highly commended was a pear cider 9 made from dessert pears) from Fox
Barrel Cider, USA.

Congratulations to all the prize-winners. The judges agreed that the
standard was generally very high this year.