Mid-Harvest: March-April

Apple Antoinette is a rare in Australia cider variety from the Normandy area of northern France and is also grown in Brittany. The aromatic juicy fruit has white flesh that tastes sweet with a bitter aftertaste. It is used as a bittersweet addition to...

A large cooking and cider variety of French origins. A SWEET cider type. Image (accessed 7/4/16) Pollination Group: PG3 Uses: Cider, Cooking Harvest: March-April Features: SWEET, large fruit

Dessert wine-like qualities. Yellow-green coloured fruit, russeted, rarely slight pink-orange flush.ALERT - limited range in Australia, combination of very high chill requirement and late flowering results in few useful crops except in areas with cold,...

Originated in Devon. It was discovered by Mr Hill, a cider maker and nurseryman of Staverton, near Totnes, Devon. Known to have been in existence in the early 1920s. Trees are very vigourous and can therefore delay cropping. Fruits are medium sized with...

Apple 'Cimetiere de Blangy' is a French cider apple grown for bittersweet cider and Calvados (apple brandy). Other names include 'Blangy', 'Blagny' and 'Cimitiere du Pays'. • Pollination Group: PG4 • Uses: cider (bittersweet), Calvados (apple...

Vintage quality, i.e. well enough balanced in sugar, tannin and acid content to make a single variety cider. An old cider apple which arose in the Martock area Somerset. Believed to have been named after a Mr Dabinett. Possibly a seedling of Chisel...

Apple 'Frequin Rouge' is a French cider variety also called 'Frequin Rouge Amer'. Small cone-shaped red apples with stripes, grow on vigorous trees. Bitter flavour with some sweetness. • Pollination Group: PG3-4 • Uses: cider, bittersweet...

From Bulmers, Hereford, England, prior to 1920. One of the premier cider making apples. Mild bittersharp, early. Striped bright red over pale yellow base.Ideal blender, can be biennial. Pollination Group: PG3 Uses: Cider Harvest: March - April Features:...

Thought to have originated in the Sutton Montis area of Somerset. As a result of its good performance in a 1917 trial at the National Fruit & Cider Institute together with good orchard performance at Burghill, Hereford, it was subsequently propagated...

Variety from Devon producing a good quality sweet cider, sometimes mildly bittersweet. Pollination Group: PG3 Uses: Cider Harvest: March - April Features: SWEET

Originated in the Exe Valley, Devon. Flowers are very sensitive to frost which may contribute to the trees biennial cropping pattern. Susceptible to scab. Good crop wiith up to 3 weeks storage. Produces a full bittersweet cider. Contains public...

Originated in the village of Yarlington, North Cadbury, Somerset. Medium bittersweet, late mid-season.Large fruit, pinkish-red flush over yellow base.Good commercial cropping habit, can tend to be biennial without skilled pruning.Stores reasonably...