Basque culture and language have an ancestral relationship with the apple, as evidenced by the numerous place names and surnames that contain the root “sagar”. This link is well documented from the 9th century onwards, but what do we know about earlier times?
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Galicia is making great efforts to recover the culture of cider. From small cideries to large companies, they are producing cider again. Although cider making almost disappeared in the past decades, they kept growing cider apples and supplying other producers such as Asturias and Basque Country.
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In the last few weeks I have been a bit inactive on social media. Not only for the vacation days that I have taken with my family, something that I desperately needed. Also because I’ve been very busy at work.
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Once again, Basque cider houses will begin the txotx season, a phenomenon that currently brings together about one million people every year. In essence, the custom of txotx is none other than to meet and celebrate the arrival of the new season, taste the cider straight from the barrels, enjoy the typical menu and, above all, socialize.
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The number of consumers drinking cider in Portugal has increased by 56% since 2015 according to a study. The majority of them are under the age of 35. 44.3% of people aged 15-24 said that they had consumed cider in the last 12 months, as well as 31.9% of people aged 25-34. But… What kind of cider are they used to drink?
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