proud producers of Dorset Schnapple
Handcrafted Schnapps made in Dorset. Whether it's Apples, Toffee Apple, Cherries or Raspberries, we use the finest ingredients to produce this delicious Schnapple.
NEW. After numerous requests to produce cider we have finally bowed to public pressure, so let me introduce these two naughty little numbers for your delectation, we have named them Mill House after our beautiful Owermoigne location.
Schnapple is made in Dorset to our own secret recipe. The result is smooth, warming apple Schnapps.
Enjoy straight as a shot over ice or as an exciting cocktail ingredient.
And for a warm cuddle, enjoy on its own at room temperature.
ENJOY A TASTE OF DORSET
We are well aware that traditional cider drinkers don't hold with the multitude of different flavoured ciders that are available today, so with this in mind we have gone old school and produced a Scrumpy Cider to tickle their tastebuds.
This bad boy has been made using traditional cider apples and has a superb scrumpy flavour that will delight any cider drinkers' discerning palate.
Cider, but not as you know it.
Due to the popularity of our Toffee Apple Schnapple, requests from suppliers and members of the public we have produced this superb lightly sparkling Salted Caramel classic.
Lovely apple and caramel blended together to produce a cider that is smoother than James Bond in a tuxedo.
It's so drinkable you'll wish you bought more.
Our new Schnapple launched for long lazy summer days.
The slight Rosé colour is reminiscent of the blush of a beautiful woman.
Juicy plump raspberries skillfully blended with apples make this luscious pink fruit laden schnapps ideal for quaffing over ice or as an exciting cocktail ingredient.
Your new best friend for garden parties.
Our original Apple Schnapps.
We have it on good authority that the reason Eve picked the apple in the Garden of Eden was to make Schnapple, and who could blame her.
When you drink Apple Schnapple you get an initial big hit of luscious apple, with long lingering fruit in the mouth. Then a lovely warm feeling to finish, it’s like Ready Brek for grownups.
It's so apple loaded it could be one of your 5-a-day (allegedly).
Question: How do you make an apple more delicious?
Answer: Make it a toffee apple of course.
We make our own caramel that goes into our dreamy Toffee Apple Schnapple; the result is schnapps that is silky smooth with a long lingering toffee finish.
It conjures up memories of nights spent at the fairground with the smell of hot toffee and caramel floating in the air. However, we don’t recommend drinking Toffee Apple Schnapple and then going for a ride on the Waltzers.
We get the cherries to create our Dorset Schnapple from our good friend John Hawkins of Dorset Cherries at Bagber Farm, and we're proud that we can use locally grown fruit in our schnapps.
When tasting, you get a massive hit of juicy cherry followed by the warming feeling of smooth schnapps, with long lingering red fruit to finish.
So go on pop your cherry and give it a try.
Hi and welcome to Glenmel Winery, first of all let us thank you for taking the time to look at our website.
Click the link below to read more about the history of Schnapple and the winery founded by Glen Holloway and Mel Jefferson
The most frequent question we get asked at Glenmel is where the **** is Owermoigne and how do you spell it?
We also get asked what is Schnapple, well Schnapple is made to a top secret recipe known only by Glen Holloway and Mel Jefferson, hence the name Glenmel Winery (we thought it sounded better than the HolloJeff Winery which frankly sounded a bit too Star Trek for our liking).
The way we started was not that many years ago, all the “local” cider seemed to come from Somerset and all the “local” wine came from Devon or Cornwall.
It appeared at the time that Dorset was well unrepresented within the food and drink market (gladly this has changed massively), additionally it was astonishing how many tons of local apples were just disregarded and left to rot, it was out of this that Schnapple was born. We set out to make a top quality product that would proudly shout it was from Dorset, that’s why our label shows the iconic Cerne Abbas Giant holding the Dorset flag.
The Glenmel Winery is based at Owermoigne, at the home of the Mill House Cider. We really recommend that you pay them a visit; they have greenhouses growing top quality plants, a cider museum that has a collection of old working cider presses, a clock museum, a shop selling local wines and ciders, local cheese and sausages and pork from Glen’s own Sandy and Black pigs and of course it's where you can sample and most importantly buy Schnapple.
You can also bring your apples to site and press them so that you can start making your own cider or drink the fresh apple juice you make. It is so much better than letting your apples go to waste and is something that here at Glenmel we totally endorse.
If you pay us a visit you will soon spot Mel as he is the one hobbling around complaining about his back, and Glen is the manic one trying to multitask between greenhouses, shop, winery and pigs. As an aside Glen is the lead singer with the V8 Hearts, a great rock band (check them out on YouTube).
So all in all I hope you have a great day if you visit Mill House Cider, but most importantly I hope you love our range of Schnapple products, if you don’t get the chance to pay us a visit why not buy a bottle from one of our Schnapple suppliers.
