This afternoon you will make your way to The Cider House (Ciderhuset). Here, you will enjoy a local produced cider (5x tastings) with a local lunch. Your experience will last about 1,5-2 hours.
The experience will start in the organic orchard at the Cider House. Sogn is the oldest fruit area in the country, and you’ll be shown that the taste starts with the small graft twigs stretching up towards the unique fjord light at the Sognefjord. The light that has inspired artists and adventurers for generations. Together, we’ll learn about basic apple cultivation and local tradition - our terroir through almost 1000 years! From here, you will move to the Cider House glasshouse, where you’ll taste 5 different ciders and learn that apple is more than just apple! You’ll become acquainted with the whole spectrum of flavors: sweet dessert apples, sour cooking apples, and bitter cider apples. You’ll be tasting from light “porch cider” to tannin-rich food ciders that are best suited for heavier meat dishes. Your tasting experience also includes a lunch plank with 5 small dishes that are adapted to each of the ciders to be tasted.
Thereafter, you’ll continue to explore Balestrand some more on your own.