Hyrneside - Argle Bargle Sparkling Apple Juice

"Last night ye haggled and argle-bargled like an apple-wife."Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886.

Argle: an argument or confrontation of moderate intensity, somewhere between a spirited debate and a fistfight.

Bargle: a word with no independent existence, but a very British, playful, rhyme.

A sparkling non-alcoholic celebratory drink that raises a glass to the feisty Apple Wives of Scotland — the apple sellers renowned for their spirited and persistent skills of negotiation.

Argle Bargle is an annual press of the local Scottish apples grown in and around the historical Orchard Town of Newburgh, where in 1191, the monks from Thiron, France brought their horticultural skills and penchant for apples, planting orchards on the surrounding hillsides of Newburgh, producing fruit that became famous throughout Scotland.

The abbey divided the orchard into long narrow strips so that the local townspeople could help take care of the fruit trees, in exchange for a portion of the crop, whilst growing vegetables and raising livestock beneath them.

These distinctive strips have been handed down through the generations as the gardens of Newburgh, and continue to produce fruit - and host markets, where apples continue to be sold, in a rather less raucous fashion.

750ml Bottle Size

0% ABV