Michel Renoux’s Stanley Apple Cider Vinegar, not just a pastime, it’s a way of life…
Michel Renoux grows his own varieties of cider apples and hand crafts his vinegars just as his father and uncle had shown him in Brittany. His cellar in Stanley houses rows of 1000 litre tanks of cider being transformed into vinegar by the ‘mother’ which looks like a jelly mass that floats on top of the cider. Michel’s vinegars range from apple cider vinegar to pommo which is a yellow, sweeter vinegar made from caramelised apples and then a much darker almost black vinegar called aigre-doux which is deliberately burnt turning the sugar of the apples black and creating a distinct sweet and sour taste.