Nightingale Cider Company Celebrates Multiple Wins at the 2025 International Cider Challenge

Nightingale Cider Company is proud to announce a series of prestigious awards at the 2025 International Cider Challenge (ICC), reaffirming its place as one of the UK's most exciting and innovative cider producers.

The ICC is globally recognised as one of the most rigorous and respected cider competitions, celebrating quality and excellence in cider-making. Entries are judged through a strict blind tasting process by an international panel of cider experts, including producers, flavour analysts, independent retailers, experienced cider writers, and supermarket buyers.

In this year’s competition, Nightingale Cider Company was honoured with the following accolades:

• Night Bird – Silver, Acid Led Cider

• Wild Disco – Trophy, Acid Led Cider

  • Also Highly Commended for Supreme Champion

• Love Bird – Silver, Rosé Cider

• Bramble Bird – Silver, Flavoured Cider

Following Nightingale’s recent success at the Bath and West British Cider Championships 2025, where Wild Disco claimed Gold and Love Bird took Silver in the open class, these awards add to an already impressive year.

These distinctions reflect the team's ongoing commitment to crafting wild fermented ciders with character, balance, and a strong sense of place. Nightingale’s approach to cider-making, blending traditional methods with a contemporary edge, continues to resonate with both judges and drinkers alike.

“It’s a huge honour to receive awards for our ciders and I’ve been blown away by the haul we’ve landed at the International Cider Challenge,” said Sam Nightingale, Nightingale Cider Founder. “These results are a testament to the hard work, creativity and care that go into every cider we make. We're especially proud that Wild Disco received the Trophy for Acid Led Cider and was highly commended for Supreme Champion — we feel very grateful!

Competitions are a fantastic way to gain feedback and improve what we do as cider makers, and give recognition for excellence. As someone who has been involved in judging international competitions for 8 or 9 years now, being on the judging panel has allowed me to experience many different ciders, learn from other judges, hone my palate and therefore improve the qualities of the ciders that we create.”

The International Cider Challenge remains a vital platform for showcasing the diversity and quality of cider production worldwide. Nightingale Cider Company is delighted to be part of this celebration of craftsmanship and continues to raise the bar for modern British cider.

These award-winning ciders are available on the Nightingale webshop here.

For trade direct sales locally and nationally, our ciders are available on Sellar, and via Pig’s Ears and Liquid Sky Drinks in the South East.

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Twitter: @NightingaleCidr

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Notes to Editors:

About Nightingale Cider Company:

Nightingale Cider Company is a family-run business based in Tenterden, Kent. The Nightingale family has been fruit farming in the area since 1948. They’ve been making small batch craft cider since 2009, keeping the process as natural as possible at every stage—their ciders and perries are made from 100% fruit juice and all are gluten-free and vegan.

Nightingale’s delicious range of ciders and juices are handmade, using fruit from their farm and nearby Kentish orchards. Driven by their passion for the highest quality ciders, they bridge tradition with innovation to produce a range of flavoursome and exciting offerings for today’s drinker.

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