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Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

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Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Basically this is an old farmsteading. And there's a narrow passageway.

And the smell of apples contained within that, it's just phenomenal.

Yes, I love that smell of apples, of course, especially when you crush them and when you...

I have to admit, I have to eat them before they go into the shredder every once in a while.

I have to sample them every time.

And that smell of apples will be wafting throughout this entire podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen, and in this edition of Scotland Outdoors,

I discover how perhaps a wee bit surprisingly,

the northeast of Scotland offers near perfect conditions

for producing award-winning cider.

Christian Stolta is the man behind the Wee Scottish Cider Company and he uses

the same techniques as French

champagne producers to create

a pretty unusual artisan product

and all from a former farmsteading

near Aberdeen using apples

almost exclusively from the local

...