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characteristics: The flesh is light tan coloured, fine grained, tender and sweet.
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characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Juicy and sweet.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Bitter.
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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.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish which is most pronounced close to the skin. Very bitter with no discernible aroma.
summary: A yellow, round, bittersweet cider apple from the Côtes-d'Armor region of Brittany (France).
origins: Grown in the Finistère region of Brittany (France).
summary: A bittersweet cider apple from northwestern France.
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characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and dense. Somewhat coarse-grained and chewy, sweet and aromatic with a vinous flavour.
summary: This is just one of the 96 varieties of limbertwig apples which arose out of the South Appalachian Mountain region of south-eastern North America. Roughly half ...
summary: Likely a lost cultivar. Used as a sharp component in cider making during the 1800s.
summary: An excellent French cider apple from Brittany; juicy, flavourful and balanced.
summary: A highly coloured mutation of Aroma discovered in 1988 in Sweden.
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characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, firm. Juicy with a good, sweet-tart balance and a wine flavour.
origins: Specifically bred by Liz Copas and Ray Williams at the Long Ashton Research Station in Somerset (U.K.) to provide England's commercial cider industry with a ...
summary: Can be kept for long commercial storage which makes them usable for the market and supermarket trade.
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characteristics: The flesh is white and tender. Fine-grained. Very juicy, sweet, somewhat acidic and with a distinct aniseed flavour.
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characteristics: The flesh is lightly greenish. Fine-grained. Juicy and lightly sweet-tart
summary: An early-summer fresh-eating apple developed in South Dakota during the early 1900s. Hardy and bears fruit within two years of being planted.
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summary: Recommended for making a single varietal dry cider. One of several varieties used for the bitter-sweet component of Brittany-style apple cider.
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summary: Tolerates temperatures down minus 50 degrees Centigrade, this Russian apple is used for making tart pies and cider. It can be grown from seed and was often used ...
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summary: One of several Antonovka apples developed by Ivan Michurin in the early 1900s to produce a variety of hardy and flavourful fruit.
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