Editorial LA SIDRA 143

EDITORIAL

The International Hall of Gala Ciders exceeded the expectations and has made for a few days Xixón the cider capital of Europe offering the opportunity to learn and enjoy different varieties of gala ciders that are made in our continent, with the participation of the most innovative and highest quality cider mills.

Asturian cider makers deserve specific mention, whose very strong presence, and whose products were awarded with SISGA’15 prizes by the international jury, such as Cortina, Riestra, Panizales, Mayador, Widow of Angelon , Norniella and Casería San Juan del Obispo.

In conclusion, we evaluate the need to evolve cider and occupy new and more dynamic areas and markets, and the urgency of cider to count on a common European rules allowing access to aid and EU subsidies, as it happens with wine.

Moreover, the conflict between growers and apple cider presses continues to fester, but yet there is no shared reflection among stakeholders to achieve minimum points of understanding. For our part we have repeated in previous years, it is to use an honest concept of being Asturian, for all and for all, food sovereignty and recovery of Asturian socio-economic fabric, relying on raw materials we produce here.

In similar terms, what is happening with the Museum of Cider of Nava is very serious, sample disabilities and lack of institutional support to a project that is expected to be an absolute consensus, the same could be said of the statement Asturian cider culture and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO, of which nothing is known and nothing is expected.

Moreover, the holidays are approaching, and it is a good time to start thinking about recovering the champagne cider, sweet or brut cider, on our tables and celebrations, and to continue demanding the “Principality” do likewise and forget all his shameful “Spanish wine.”

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