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Friday, April 8, 2022
Lucky You Orchards: Hard cider
on California apple farm menu
By JUIA HOLLISTER
For the Capital Press
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RIPON, Calif. — Andrea
Chinchiolo says spelling her
name is hard, but so is her
farm’s apple cider, and that’s a
good thing.
“I grew up in the orchards
with my wonderful parents
and two brothers,” she said.
“Our house was surrounded
by ripe cherries in the spring
and crunchy sweet apples late
summer and fall.”
The family comes from a
history of agriculture and land
management. The 200-acre
farm, Lucky You Orchards, is
over 100 years old and on its
fourth generation.
Apples became the main
crop in the 1980s when the
Chinchiolos became one of
fi rst California orchards to
commercially plant Fujis.
Apples are one of the most
Julia Hollister/For the Capital Press
Andrea Chinchiolo sells
apples and Far West hard
cider from her San Joa-
quin County farm at the
Ferry Plaza Farmers Mar-
ket in San Francisco.
expensive and labor reliant
crops.
In addition to heirloom
apples, the farm produces
cherries, pluots and nectar-
ines with 90% of them cer-
tifi ed organic.
Sustainable farming and
the concept of connecting peo-
ple with their food source is
woven into the family’s new
venture.
“Far West Cider was started
5 years ago as a way to uti-
lize fruit that was perfectly
delicious but too small or not
fully ‘perfect’ for grocery store
shelves,” Chinchiolo said.
The juice is fermented,
cellared and bottled at the
cidery in Richmond, north of
Oakland.
Distribution is expansive:
from Bay Area bars, restau-
rants and retailers to South-
ern California and Oregon
markets.
Using the catch phrase,
“Cider But Diff erent,” Far
West Cider strives to connect
consumers with beverages,
using real ingredients that
come from a real farm.
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