Descendant of Sir Isaac Newton making cider from his own apple orchard

A DESCENDANT of Sir Isaac Newton makes cider from his own apples.

Giles Wood’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great uncle came up with his gravity laws after being hit on the head by an apple.

More than 350 years later, Giles, is now a cider thinker — like West Country band The Wurzels, who had a hit in 1976 with I Am a Cider Drinker.

He faced ripping up a 40-acre orch-ard on his farm in Beaminster, Dorset, as apple orders from cider firms dried up.

Instead, he now uses them to make Isaac Cider — with names including Calculus, Refraction and Anti-Gravity — selling 35,000 bottles.

Giles, 67, whose family has owned Coombe Down Farm since 1928, works with wife Fran, 63, and sons Bertie, 31, and Rollo, 29.

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He said: “As a family we didn’t want to scrub our cider apple trees. We are direct descendants of Sir Isaac Newton

“We might not be geniuses like him, but like the apple that fell from the tree that gave Newton his eureka moment, we had a major realisation.

“It has been such great fun and is a real family effort.”

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