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Binet Violet
type: Cider
synonyms: Binet Gris
identification: Small sometimes tending to medium size, round and slightly conic shape, typically higher on one side than the other. The base colour is greenish maturing to golden yellow, blushed brick-red on the sun-exposed face. Marked with abundant russet lenticels. The calyx is small and slightly open, set in a wide and deep basin. The stem is slender and moderately long set in a deep and wide, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, fine-grained and tender. Juicy, sweet and well flavoured.
uses: Used almost exclusively for cider. One of a number highly prized, French cider varietals.
origins: Grown from pippins by Legrand, nursery owner in Yvetot, in 1868. Described under its synonym Binet Gris by Lucien de Boutteville in "Le Cidre: Traité rédigé d'après les documents recueillis, de 1864 à 1872" (published in 1875). There seems to be no documentation on its parentage.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous.
cold storage: Needs to be used soon after harvest.
harvest: Starting early in the sixth period.
juice character: Flavourful, amber must. 2.62 grams per litre tannin, 24.93 milliEquivalents acids per litre, Brix 12.4 degrees.
juice_classification: Bittersweet
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
brix: 12.4
harvest period: 6
sg: 1.05
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