South Hill Cider (Finger Lakes, Upstate New York)

The Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York is home to several incredible cider makers, including South Hill Ciders - one of our favorite American cider makers. The surrounding area is robust with orchards and vineyards, and well known for it's wine and cider quality. Steve Selin's high quality blends and single-varietal ciders are a beatiful tribute to a time when fine cider was a staple of American culture.

South Hill Cider (Finger Lakes, Upstate New York)
    17 products
    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Sunlight Transformed cider coferement
    South Hill Cider - Sunlight Transformed (750 mL)
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    12 oz green can of Phonograph Harvest Cider Un-Sweet
    Phonograph Harvest Cider - Un-Sweet (12 oz)
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    12 oz pink can of Phonography Rosé Cider Brut
    12 oz pink can of Phonograph Rosé Cider Brut on a picnic table with trees in the background
    Phonograph Harvest Cider - Brut Rosé (12 oz)
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    12 oz blue can of Phonography Orchard Cider
    Phonograph Orchard Cider - Semi-Sweet (12 oz)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Old Time Sparkling Cider - Traditional Heirloom Apples
    South Hill Cider - Old Time Cider (750 mL)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Dabinett - Keeved Pet Nat Cider - Ithaca, New York
    South Hill Cider - Dabinett Keeved Cider (750 mL)
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    375 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Pommeau - Ithaca New York
    South Hill Cider - Pommeau (375 mL)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Newtown Pippin - Single Varietal Traditional Method - Batch #2021 - South Hill - Ithaca, New York cider
    South Hill Cider - Newtown Pippin Single-Varietal (750 mL)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Goldwin cider
    South Hill Cider - Goldwin (750 mL)
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    South Hill Cider - Prelude #12 (750 mL)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Porter's Russet
    South Hill Cider - Porter's Russet (750 mL)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Packbasket - Wild Fermented Wild Pippin Apples, Traditional Method
    South Hill Cider - Packbasket Cider (750 mL)
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    375 mL bottle of South Hill Cider - Ice Cider
    South Hill Cider - Ice Cider (375 mL)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cidery Perry - New York
    South Hill Cider - Perry (750 mL)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Bluegrass Russet - Golden Russet - Northern Spy - Baldwin
    South Hill Cider - Bluegrass Russet (750 mL)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Baldwin - Single Varietal Apples Grown in 2020 - New York cider
    South Hill Cider - Baldwin Single-Varietal (750 mL)
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    750 mL bottle of South Hill Cider Bacchus cider coferement of Golden Russet and Gewurztraminer skins
    South Hill Cider - Bacchus Co-Ferment (750 mL)
    South Hill Cider

    The Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York is home to several incredible cider makers, including South Hill Ciders - one of the best American cider makers. 

    South Hill Cider is located in Ithaca, NY - near Cornell University, where the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has an entire program dedicated to research regarding cider apple varieties. The surrounding area is robust with orchards and vineyards, and well known for it's wine and cider quality. 

    Head cidermaker Steve Selin has been bottling his own cider since 2003. As a musician firmly grounded in traditional American Old-time music, Steve can’t help but point out the many parallels to cider: in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, both cider and Old-time music were staples of American culture, only to be sidelined by more mechanized and industrial rivals. Working in Finger Lakes winery tasting rooms for a decade as a musician is where his music and cidermaking coalesced. Collaborating with winemakers elevated the quality of the ciders. The names of many of South Hill Cider’s bottlings are therefore inspired by many musical references.

    South Hill's tasting room is at their home orchard which started out as a collaboration with an adjoining landowner who permitted Steve to plow his fallow fields and to plant it to apple trees. This land, being only 4 miles from downtown Ithaca, is under intense development pressure. So, in an effort to protect it from subdivision and development in perpetuity, they successfully had it protected by a conservation easement. They have never applied synthetic chemicals to the farm and use only organic certified inputs.

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