Ferme de Port Coustic Cidraigre- Brittany, France

Mathieu Le Saux is originally from the Lorient region (Morbihan). After training in viticulture, notably in Switzerland, he returned home to Brittany and settled on the island of Groix, 5 km off Lorient in 2017. His ambitious, comprehensive and exciting project was to make wine, cider, market gardening and a bit of breeding. The vines and trees for the orchard were planted straight away, but it will take some time before the fruit is harvested. In the meantime, Mathieu buys apples from different orchards in the four Breton departments to make his cider. The selected apples are grown in orchards that respect the ecosystem and the health of both producers and consumers. Matthieu's aim is to really bring out the terroir and the fruit in the different ciders he produces. La Ferme du Port Coustic is mostly raw cider. Fruit ciders, clean and precise.

This vinegar is delicious enough to sip on it’s own, mixed with soda water or in a fruit shrub but also used as a salad dressing.

"Our niche is to make cider with apple juice, the old-fashioned way, with old vertical presses. With us, no sweetening, no wetting with water, no filtration, no addition of sulphites, yeast, enzymes... or other industrial stratagems!”