Golden cider splashing around fresh apples

Nelson · Aotearoa New Zealand

Refreshingly different real cider.

Crafted in the heart of Nelson's rich fruit growing region, from NZ-grown fruit, by Rodney & Norma.

1984Rodney's first cider, Suffolk
8Ciders in the range
14NZ Cider Awards medals
84Stockists across NZ

The range

Six craft ciders & a Zero% range

Every cider is 500ml, gluten free and vegan-friendly.

Farmhouse Scrumpy Cloudy bottle

7.2% ABV · 500ml · approx. 2.8 standard drinks

Farmhouse Scrumpy Cloudy

2020 Bronze

Traditional English West Country–style scrumpy made only from apples — 12 varieties of cider, dessert and crab apples. Medium-dry, lightly carbonated.

  • No added sugar
  • Gluten free
  • Vegan
  • Unfiltered
Farmhouse Scrumpy with Blackberry bottle

6.0% ABV · 500ml · approx. 2.4 standard drinks

Farmhouse Scrumpy with Blackberry

2025 Gold + Trophy2020 Silver

Takes you back to autumn days foraging for blackberries. Medium, lightly carbonated and bursting with rich berry flavour and aroma.

  • No added sugar
  • Gluten free
  • Vegan
  • Unfiltered
Bootleg — Whiskey Barrel Aged bottle

9% ABV · 500ml · approx. 3.6 standard drinks

Bootleg — Whiskey Barrel Aged

Aged two years with oak whiskey barrel chips. Off-dry, with rich smooth layers of honey, spice and baked apple, a deep colour and a spirited aroma.

  • Gluten free
  • Vegan
Rosé bottle

4% ABV · 500ml · approx. 1.6 standard drinks

Rosé

An elegant, light and refreshingly crisp apple cider with a splash of raspberry juice. Enjoy chilled.

  • Gluten free
  • Vegan
  • Lightly filtered
Purple Haze bottle

4% ABV · 500ml · approx. 1.6 standard drinks

Purple Haze

2024 Gold2021 Bronze

Boysenberry, blackcurrant and blueberry. Sit back and drift into a haze of rich, dark, sun-ripened berries — dream of hazy summer nights.

  • Gluten free
  • Vegan
  • Lightly filtered
Citrus & Ginger bottle

4% ABV · 500ml · approx. 1.6 standard drinks

Citrus & Ginger

2024 Bronze

A mouth-filling, well-balanced fusion of lemon, orange and aromatic mild ginger. Medium sweetness.

  • Gluten free
  • Vegan
Zero% Boysenberry bottle

Zero% · 500ml · approx. 0.2 standard drinks

Zero% Boysenberry

2025 Bronze2022 Gold + Trophy2021 Silver

Full of the sweet summer flavours and aromas of freshly picked berries, crafted from luscious Nelson-grown fruit. Enjoy anytime.

  • No added sugar
  • Gluten free
  • Vegan
Zero% Crisp Apple bottle

Zero% · 500ml · approx. 0.2 standard drinks

Zero% Crisp Apple

2022 Silver2021 Bronze

All the refreshing bite with very low alcohol. Crafted from Pink Lady, Granny Smith and bittersweet cider apples from Nelson's fruit bowl.

  • No added sugar
  • Gluten free
  • Vegan

Zero% ciders are made with a slight natural fermentation and light filtration, so they contain a very low amount of alcohol (approx. 0.2 standard drinks); they were entered in the awards as "0.5%" ciders.

Golden cider pouring into a glass, full of fine bubbles

Crafted from Nelson fruit

From a Suffolk farm orchard to Nelson.

Old Mill Cider is made by Rodney and Norma, a husband and wife team with a passion for all things cider and fruit. Rodney made his first cider with apples from a small home farm orchard in Suffolk, England, in 1984.

Things have progressed quite a bit since then. After 20 years in the Nelson region, they're spoilt by the wide variety of top-quality local fruit — the heart of every bottle.

Read our story →
Stainless steel fermentation tanks in warm light

The craft

Orchard. Press. Fermentation. Bottle.

  1. 01

    Nelson fruit

    NZ-grown fruit, almost all from the local Nelson/Tasman growing region — cider, dessert and crab apples, plus berries.

  2. 02

    Pressed

    Fruit is pressed for its juice, and the pressed pulp is composted back onto the land. Nothing wasted.

  3. 03

    Fermented & matured

    In an in-ground cellar that holds a constant temperature year round — no power-hungry heating or cooling.

  4. 04

    Bottled

    Into 100% recyclable, NZ-made glass. A clean-burning biomass boiler (new for 2024) powers the pasteuriser.

Play

Squish the fruit, make the cider.

Tap the apples and berries as they fall to press them into juice. Fill the bottle as fast as you can. Red and gold apples make gold cider, raspberries and boysenberries make pink, and blueberries make purple. Watch out for the chemical bottles of artificial colours and flavours: tap one and it's game over.

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Ready to press?

Tap the falling apples and berries to squish them. Avoid the chemical bottles!

Award winning

NZ Cider Awards medal winners

2025Trophy & Gold

Farmhouse Blackberry — Best Cider with Berry Fruit

2022Trophy & Gold

Zero% (0.5%) Boysenberry — Best Low/Zero Alcohol Cider

2020NZ Champion Cider

Old Mill Ice Cider — Gold, Champion & Ice Cider Trophy

From the official New Zealand Cider Awards (Fruit Wine & Cider Makers Association) results booklets.

The Old Mill range lined up in the Nelson sun

Our story

Rodney & Norma

Old Mill Cider is made by Rodney and Norma, a husband and wife team, with a passion for all things cider and fruit.

Rodney made his first cider with apples from a small home farm orchard in Suffolk, England, in 1984. Things have progressed quite a bit since then. Having lived in the Nelson region for the past 20 years, they've found themselves spoilt by the wide variety of top-quality fruit grown in the area, with which to make top-quality ciders.

Sustainability, high on the list

  • Recyclable glass100% recyclable NZ-made bottles, made primarily from recycled NZ glass.
  • NZ-grown fruitAlmost all from the local Nelson/Tasman growing region.
  • Solar poweredThe cidery is solar powered.
  • Solar & biomassSolar water heating for cleaning; a clean-burning forced-draft biomass boiler for the pasteuriser.
  • Nothing wastedPulp composted back onto the land; grey water used for irrigation.
  • Natural cellarAn in-ground cellar with a constant temperature year round.

Find a stockist

Where to find Old Mill

If your store doesn't stock the cider you're after, ask the liquor manager to get it in for you.

Pins are approximate — tap a store below to find it on the map.

North Island 31 stores

New World 20

  • Brookfield
  • Feilding
  • Green Bay
  • Havelock North
  • Island Bay
  • Mangawhai
  • Morrinsville
  • Mt Roskill
  • New Lynn
  • Otaki
  • Paremata
  • Pioneer
  • Porirua
  • Thorndon
  • Tokoroa
  • Waikanae
  • Waitara
  • Whakatane
  • Whangamata
  • Whanganui

PAK'nSAVE 11

  • Albany
  • Glen Innes
  • Hastings
  • Kapiti
  • Kilbirnie
  • Palmerston North
  • Petone
  • Rotorua
  • Te Awamutu
  • Upper Hutt
  • Whanganui

South Island 53 stores

New World 31

  • Alexandra
  • Balclutha
  • Bishopdale
  • Blenheim
  • Cromwell
  • Durham Street
  • Fendalton
  • Ferry Road
  • Gardens
  • Greymouth
  • Ilam
  • Kaikoura
  • Mosgiel
  • Motueka
  • Nelson
  • Northwood
  • Oamaru
  • Prestons
  • Queenstown
  • Rangiora
  • Ravenswood
  • Rolleston
  • St Martins
  • Stanmore
  • Stoke
  • Three Parks
  • Timaru
  • Waitaki
  • Wanaka
  • Wigram
  • Windsor

PAK'nSAVE 9

  • Blenheim
  • Dunedin
  • Hornby
  • Moorhouse
  • Papanui
  • Rangiora
  • Riccarton
  • Richmond
  • Wainoni

Four Square 9

  • Diamond Harbour
  • Fairlie
  • Karamea
  • Mackenzie
  • Palmerston
  • Rakaia
  • Tapawera
  • Wakefield
  • West Melton

On The Spot 1

  • Moana Blenheim

Connings Food Market 1

  • Richmond

FreshChoice 2

  • Nelson
  • Parklands

Say hello.

Questions, stockist enquiries or just to tell us your favourite.

info@oldmillcider.co.nz