The Somerset Cider Brandy Company& Burrow Hill Cider

Julian Temperley took the first commercial cider-distilling licence in the UK's modern history in 1989, and the Somerset Cider Brandy Company has aged its spirit at Pass Vale Farm ever since — three, five, ten and twenty years in barrel — above the Burrow Hill ciders that start it all, pressed in one of only three great cider-apple 'honeypot' districts in England, all of them in Somerset. The business stays emphatically family: Temperleys fill the company's board, the designer Alice among them, with the chef Mark Hix alongside. The farm shop opens Monday to Saturday, tours and tastings run on site, and the company's Cider Bus is a fixture at Glastonbury Festival.