Albemarle CiderWorks

View from the Tasting Room Patio

View of Rural Ridge from the Tasting Room Patio at Albemarle CiderWorks.

Organizations

http://www.southernexposure.com/HHF/index.html Heritage Harvest Festival, held annually in September at Monticello's Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Tufton Farm. This year's event is on Saturday, September 6, 2008, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Vintage Virginia Apples is one of the sponsors and participants in this event.

www.nafex.org North American Fruit Explorers.

http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ark/heritage_apples.html Slow Foods USA has as its goal to identify and promote the best-tasting, most traditional American apples.

www.crfg.org California Rare Fruit Growers (CRFG) has a general interest in all aspects of fruit growing with a primary focus on semitropical fruits and on fruits and vegetables.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dailey/byfg.html Backyard Fruit Growers provides an exchange of information for amateurs and others in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Cider

http://www.foggyridgecider.com A beautiful site with a wealth of information about the apple varieties and techniques used in hard cider production. In colonial America, fermented cider was the drink of choice. John Adams attributed his health and long life to a tankard of cider before breakfast. Thomas Jefferson was famous for the champagne-like cider he created from the Virginia Hewe's Crab. Foggy Ridge Cider is reviving this time-honored tradition.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/andrew_lea/homepage.htm Wittenham Hill Cider is Andrew Lea's Web site.

http://talisman.com/cider/index.html#Digest Links to Dick Dunn's Cider Digest.

Sites of Local Interest/Places to Stay in Central Virginia

http://www.crossroadsinn.com The Inn at the Crossroads is less than a mile from Rural Ridge Orchard and offers attractive accomadations and rates for those attending our events. It is also the site where you can reserve space at the newly-renovated Rural Ridge Cottage, on our property, directly across from Albemarle CiderWorks. Highly recommended.

http://avenue.org/ An online community network serving Charlottesville and Albemarle County. It includes links to a comprehensive list of community services, community events and tourist attractions, places to stay, and other resources.

http://www.monticello.org/ Explore Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home, gardens, and plantation. Monticello is owned and operated by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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