As producers and purveyors of small batch, premium, non industrial, artisan ciders & apple brandy, William O'Callaghan, and his father Michael before him, have been fermenting exceptional craft cider and distilling Ireland's only apple brandy for over 36 years using only heritage, heirloom cider apples, namely Michelin (Normandy) and Dabinett (Somerset), grown in substantial, natural orchards in the beautiful Blackwater Valley.  

Cider apples differ hugely in taste from cooking, eating or dessert apples. Cider apples are naturally higher in tannins and lower in fructose, which results in a cleaner, crisper cider, and lower in calories than commercially produced ciders. 

We are one of four single-origin orchards in Ireland, only using apples in our ciders from our own sustainable orchards. A "blossom-to-bottle" ethos helps ensure sustainability, authenticity, quality, traceability, uniqueness and compliance.