North Garden, Virginia
...from the rich orchard heritage of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains
Visit our Tasting Room!
Open Wednesdays through Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Albemarle CiderWorks wishes to thank our friends and patrons for making our first year a resounding success. We completely sold out our 2009 release. We have increased our production and added a fourth cider:
Old Virginia Winesap is our second varietal, made entirely from that quintessential American Apple. It is quite dry and pairs elegantly with food, especially traditional American cuisine.
For details about our Orchard and Nursery, go to: www.vintagevirginiaapples.com
Click here for a map and directions to our location. If you are using an Internet mapping program to get specific directions, the address to use is 2545 Rural Ridge Lane, North Garden, VA 22959.
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Chuck and Charlotte Shelton lead the Shelton family-run Cidery and Tasting Room.
For a place to stay, consider our Guest House, Rural Ridge Cottage, located on our property near the Tasting Room and Cidery.
At the Grand Opening, Governor Kaine congratulates Bud Shelton, owner of Rural Ridge Orchard, and his son, Bill Shelton .
Click here for more pictures of the GRAND OPENING of Albemarle CiderWorks.
Who we are: Albemarle CiderWorks is a family-run Cidery and Tasting Room that produces cider from heritage varieties of apples that can thrive in Albemarle County,Virginia. Thomas Jefferson experimented with 18 or more varieties of apples at Monticello, only a few miles from our orchard at Rural Ridge. We grow a dozen or so of those heritage cultivars that are still extant as well as other old-fashioned varieties that are blended to create full-bodied ciders to rival those produced in the Colonial era.
In April 2010, Albemarle CiderWorks won the Beverage Artisan category in Edible Blue Ridge Magazine's first-ever "Local Hero Awards." This means that Edible Blue Ridge readers, voting online, chose Albemarle CiderWorks as the best local beverage artisan. We are honored to receive this award in our very first year of production.
To learn more about the varieties of cider we are producing and the process we use, click on the menu choices at left.
Albemarle CiderWorks, located at Rural Ridge Orchard in North Garden, Virginia, is owned and operated by the Shelton family. The Cidery, Apple Barn, and Tasting Room are now open to the public. Three labels are available for tasting and for sale to the public.
Albemarle CiderWorks was founded in 2008 by the Shelton family as an additional product line to the thriving Vintage Virginia Apples orchard and nursery. We began by planting interesting apple varieties and now have more than 200 varieties. We pull from these varieties to create our distinctive cider labels.
A Grand Opening on July 13, 2009, inaugurated our new Tasting Room! Special guests, including Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine, were on hand to recognize Albemarle CiderWorks as a unique and promising new business venture for Virginia and Albemarle County.
The Tasting Room is open from Wednesdays through Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tastings and tours of the cidery are available at $3.00 per person. Three unique hard cider blends are available for sale.
The Tasting Room of Albemarle CiderWorks is open on Wednesdays through Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The hand-crafted bar of the Tasting Room is ready for visitors.
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Vintage Virginia Apples, LLC, P.O. Box 210, North Garden, VA 22959 | phone: 434.297.ADAM (434-297-2326)