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Amère de Berthecourt
type: Cider
synonyms: Amer de Berthecourt, Berthcourt
summary: This bittersweet cider apple orginated in the 1800s in France and is valued for blending when additional bitterness is called for in hard cider.
identification: Small to medium size, round fruit. The base colour is yellowish green maturing to yellow, sometimes blushed carmine on the sun-exposed face. The skin is glossy and marked with scattered greyish lenticels. The calyx is medium size and closed, set in a shallow basin. The stem is short and set in a narrow, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm and moderately fine-grained. Juicy, sweet with a noticeable, long bitter aftertaste and vanilla, honey and fruit flavours. Sometimes a pronounced grassiness. The degree of bitterness can vary from moderately bitter to intensely bitter, depending on growing conditions.
uses: This apple is too bitter for any purpose other than making hard cider.
origins: Grown from a pip at the Parisis Fontains in Berthecourt, Normandy (France) during the early 1850s.
cultivation: Vigorous and spreading. Semi-spur. Produces heaviest crops in alternating years.
cold storage: Will keep up to two months.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to scab.
harvest: Ready for harvest late in the fourth period.
notes: Sometimes blended with other varietals, the Amère de Berthcourt can easily stand alone for a single varietal cider with plenty of body.
juice character: Rich gold colour. Highly versatile for augmenting bitterness in otherwise bland cider. On its own, it produces a pale golden, slightly bitter cider.
juice_classification: Bittersweet
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 19
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
brix: 13
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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