"Craft"

  

There's a lot of chat nowadays about Craft - what is and isn't considered craft - and a fair bit of protesting  too much.
 

So we thought we'd show you how the Dupont family do it - and you can make up your own minds if our Cidre can be considered "Craft".

French Cidre Making

These are the guys that make it happen

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Jerome and his chief Cidre maker

This is where the magic happens

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The cidre is stored under pressure in this VAT

A friend with a lorry turns up

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It's then transferred, under pressure, to the lorry

Small batch production at its finest

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Where the bottling plant is

Cleaning the bottles before filling

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Where it fills the bottles

Stored in wooden pallex

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and they get laid down in batches of about 8,000