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Clos Renaux
type: Cider
identification: Large, round tending to conic. Greenish yellow to golden, blushed and striped brick-red on the sun-exposed face; about one third of the surface. Apples not exposed to the sun are often completely greenish yellow. The stem is short and stout, set in narrow and somewhat shallow cavity. The calyx is large and open to partly open, set in a shallow and wide, pleated basin.
characteristics: The flesh is white. Firm and juicy. Moderately sweet and slightly tart.
origins: Grown in the 1930s by Raffin at Bourgtheroude in the Eure Department in the Normandy region of France.
cultivation: Vigorous, growing to a large, dome shaped mature tree.
harvest: Starting late in the fourth period and sometimes well into the fifth.
notes: This is one of the varieties used in the production of Calvados apple spirits.
juice character: Brix 12.85, tannins 2.2, acidity 36.91milliEquivalents/Litre
juice_classification: Sweet
pollination group: F
pollination peak: 23
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
brix: 12.8
tannins: 2.2
acidity: 36.91
harvest period: 4
sg: 1.0517
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