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The fruit was an apple of paradise. The companion of Adam fell, but now that is in season, you have to travel to Navarre and leave you too in a typical cider house where besides tasting the cider of the season you can attend the whole process of its preparation.

It’s frothy, bubbly, sour, bitter, sweet, fresh, straw-colored, evocative, digestive … and besides all this a drink of celebration, the perfect excuse to gather with family or group of friends. Well know in the area of Baztán-Bidasoa, famous for its cider tradition since centuries. Since mid-January, cider season opens with the opening of the kupelas (barrels) and the celebration of cider (stick that plugs the hole through which flows the first cider), and until January, when he concludes its evolution, this corner of Navarre offers a tempting invitation to explore what lies behind the cider. You can not lose.

The small town of Lekarotz, immersed in the Bidasoa valley, a claim is all natural and gourmet food in this time of year and not only for his inspiring landscape, with extensive forests of beech, oak and chestnut, also host one of the cider more typical Bidasoa Valley: Larraldea. Located 11 miles from the Manor Park Bertiz and less than thirty caves and Urdazubi Zugarramurdi-Urdax, in the traditional mountain village which is located performs the complete cycle, ie here grown apples are harvested and cider is made, a process that includes its pressing, fermentation, storage in reservoirs and bottling. But besides this, it is eaten, including ecological, if the season allows, in a witty around their tables and the menu runs typical.

The dishes of chorizo in cider, cod omelette, cod with peppers, grilled meat, and for dessert, cheese with walnuts and quince are the rich dishes cooked in the traditional way to arrive at robust tables wood. And between courses, kupelas many visits as you like, because each has its own flavor-cider depending on the barrel and the fermentation process and, above all, because the cider here should not stop crashing into the glass .

Although Navarra A wide range of cider spread throughout Spain, only five, among which is Larraldea, have the distinction of being a complete cycle. For the rest you have to get closer to Lekunberri Beruete, Lesaka and Aldatz:

Toki Alai
Just outside the town of Lekunberri on the road to San Miguel de Aralar, this is a family that produces cider cider extracted from its own plantation of apple since 2000. Proposes every day a traditional menu and the ability to take out a few bottles to enjoy at home too.

Behetxonea
The Cider House occupies the ground floor of a renovated traditional farmhouse in the town of Beruete, about two kilometers from the town of the locality. Its dining room, decorated with regional motifs, you can taste the typical menu, but also a letter based on a variety of fish and meat, on the first floor, visitors can watch the production methods of cider.

Linddurrenborda
At this village on the outskirts of Lesaka must arrive to try their tacos and tortilla cod, always accompanied by home made cider with apple trees are grown here.

Martitxonea
In Aldatz, in the mountains of Larraun, for those who enjoy the mountain and gastronomy is an essential destination. And also very good cider.