It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into cider. – Benjamin Franklin

It was only a matter of time. Everything old is new again. The meteoric growth in the number of wineries in Virginia and the explosive expansion of the craft beer industry in the past decade leads the thinking drinker to one logical destination: Hard cider. And what better place than Virginia to revive a centuries-old tradition? English settlers brought their taste for the beverage, along with their apples when they arrived in the new world.