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Gros Bois
type: Cider
identification: Medium sometimes tending to large size, round-flattened and lightly ribbed. The skin is smooth, the base colour greenish-yellow, over which is a reddish pink blush marked with darker lenticels on the sun-exposed face. The stem is stout and very short, set in shallow and wide, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish. Juicy, moderately sweet and somewhat tart. Amber juice. Flavourful. Browns on exposure to air.
origins: Likely originated in the area of Bessin in Normandy (France) where it is widely grown.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading tree. Produces abundant crops. Hardy.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months, becoming mealy toward the end.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to fire blight.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the middle of the fifth period
notes: One of 30 varieties of cider apples used in the production of Calvados apple spirit.
juice character: Presses out to a golden straw-coloured must.
juice_classification: Bitter sweet
pollination group: G
pollination peak: 24
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
brix: 12.3
harvest period: 5
sg: 1.0496
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