Meet the Family
We are a small family firm who make ciders, cordials and hedgerow wines. The apples come from a number of orchards across Warwickshire, including our own.
Orchards are planted for a purpose and we want to use them to their full potential. Waste not, want not has never tasted so good!
Laura
Laura has a degree in Mathematics, loves wildlife, nature and dogs.
She is passionate about the orchard and making the best of all it offers, fruit, willow, herbs, plants and wildlife. Family and her pets are top of her list of important things
with the environment and sustainability a close second. She endeavours to leave the smallest footprint on this planet.
Cider making and apples are becoming an obsession, grafting different varieties, orchards and traditional methods are (almost) occupying too much space in her head.
Laura enjoys reading, being with her parrot Rocky and her hens, tending her orchard and intends to spend the maximum time possible on her interests; the latest one being willow weaving.
She does not enjoy housework or shopping and intends to spend the minimum time possible doing either.
Dan
Dan loves nature. A perfect day would be
spent walking in the countryside with his family, enjoying a picnic, and finishing off at
a country pub for a
well-deserved pint or two.
However, most of his working life seems to have been in-doors; and he has spent the last twenty-five years as a software engineer.
He has lots of hobbies, including walking, gardening and writing, with an especial interest in tulips!
Pat
Patrick is a senior lecturer at a Russell Group university. He has a First Class degree in Applied Chemistry and was awarded his PhD in Engineering Materials from Cambridge University in 2000. He has worked and lived in the Netherlands and Germany, returning to England in 2007.
As an engineering researcher he joined Sibling Winery to provide his project management skills. He's the organiser-in-chief. Working in the orchard is a chance to create a heritage that is environmentally friendly as well as spending time with his family.
Patrick relaxes by listening to a wide range of music, writing fantasy fiction, reading history books and biographies, and playing poker. He also enjoys baking, with bread being a speciality. He combines much of his hobbies by organising poker nights, which are becoming something of a family tradition, where we play poker late into the night, eating fresh-baked food, drinking excellent wines and ciders, and listening to fine music.
Rosie
Rosie is Laura’s daughter, and is here to make sure that after all that hard work brewing, our ciders and wines look the part, and that people want to drink them!
When she’s not designing our packaging and managing this account, she can be found behind her trusty sewing machine creating pieces for her fashion label which offers training opportunities for young aspiring fashion designers, or running a youth programme for an arts charity which is her full time job!
Our training
It's not just us though!
Even though there’s only four of us on paper, we are fortunate to have lots of helpers. Grandmas, granddads, kids, fiancées and friends all muck in and help.
When we were chatting about our ambitions for this business, we decided we’re not really into world domination. If we as a family can make and sell really tasty cider and wines from the land we have, then we’re happy.
