Founder, Piotr Nahajski, had just completed a study tour of the Champagne region when he came across an English cider that had undergone secondary bottle fermentation.  Putting the two together he envisaged a delicate English cider, low in tannins and phenolics, made from juice that resembled more closely the juice used for fine sparkling wine than for traditional cider.  It would be allowed extra long bottle ageing before its release.

The result is Chalkdown cider:  A cider that has taken 30 months to create from the harvesting of the apples to its release for sale.