You don’t often hear about the village of Laneo, set deep in the lush greenery of Asturias in Northern Spain. It’s a sleepy place, a little hard to get to, less sunny than almost anywhere else in the Iberian peninsula. What it does have, however, is some of the very finest cider in the world.
Traditional Asturian cider or Sidra Natural is unfiltered and alive, moving and changing in the bottle, a product that is unique and exciting even if it’s often too volatile to be very practical to export.
To get the real thing you have to make your way to this corner of Spain as writer @isbn.billy did for our last issue, retracing some family history and going deep into what makes this drink so unique.
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Words and images by Billy de Luca
Words for @i_d on The Antwerp Six @momuantwerp and here are other photos I took of people + à random guy in à wolf headpiece + some of the show but the rest of the show photos are online x
