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Best apple varieties for juicing

These are the best apple varieties for producing freshly-pressed apple juice, a tangy-sweet delight.

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Varieties list

Akane
Akane is an attractive early-season eating apple with a good pedigree and a sweet/sharp flavour.
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Ananas Reinette
Ananas Reinette has small pretty yellow apples with a distinctive pineapple flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Ascahire
A large reliable cooking apple from northern France which is particularly good for juicing.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Ashmead's Kernel
Ashmead's Kernel is a traditional English eating apple with a distinctive pear-like flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Baguette d'Hiver
A traditional late season red dessert apple from northern France.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 6
Bardsey
Bardsey is a hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Belle Fleur Rouge
A sport or seedling of Belle Fleur de France, with a darker red skin coloration.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Berner Rosen
Berner Rosen is an attractive dessert apple from Switzerland.
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bramley's Seedling
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Court Pendu Rouge
Court Pendu Rouge is a very old French dessert apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 6
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cripps Pink
Cripps Pink is is a well-known modern apple variety, well-suited to the warmer apple-growing regions.
- Picking season: Very late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Discovery
Discovery is a popular early-season English apple variety, with a juicy sharp flavour.
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Early Red Meat
Early Red Meat is an early season apple with a marbled red / pink flesh. It produces a dark pink apple juice.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flanders Reinette
Flanders Reinette is an ancient dual-purpose apple variety, found across southern Belgium and northern France.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Gala
Gala is a popular commercial apple variety, with a sweet flavour and crisp flesh.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Golden Pippin
One of the oldest English apples, used for cooking and eating, with a fruity lemon-like flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Gueule de Mouton
Gueule de Mouton is a fabulous apple that is good for eating fresh or juicing.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Hidden Rose®
Hidden Rose is named for the unexpected rose pink flesh hidden under the plain green skin.
- Picking season: Very late
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Idared
Idared is a late-season American apple variety, notable for its excellent keeping qualities.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jacques Lebel
A high quality French cooking apple with a crisp juicy acidic flesh.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Mutsu
Mutsu is a high quality dual-purpose apple from Japan, with a good flavour for eating fresh, and also sharp enough for cooking.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Newtown Pippin
First discovered in the 18th century, Newtown Pippin is a versatile American apple with a good aromatic flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Peasgood's Nonsuch
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Pendragon
An unusual red-fleshed apple from Cornwall or Devon in England. The bark, blossom, and leaves also have a dull-red tint.
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 6
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pink Pearl
Pink Pearl features bright pink flesh, and pink apple blossom.
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 1
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Queen Cox
A modern self-fertile form of the renowned Cox's Orange Pippin, with arguably even better flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Red Devil
Red Devil is a versatile English eating apple, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Reine de Reinettes
A traditional French dual-purpose apple, which was also known in the Victorian England as King of the Pippins.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Reinette des Capucins
Reinette des Capucins is an ancient French country apple variety, ideal for traditional French cookery and for eating fresh.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Roberts Crab
Roberts Red or Roberts Crab is an unusual red-fleshed crab-apple, with dark pink blossom, and purple fruits.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Roxbury Russet
Roxbury Russet is probably the oldest apple variety originating from North America.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Saint Edmund's Russet
Saint Edmund's Russet is considered one of the best English russet apples.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Saint Martin
Saint Martin is a traditional French bittersweet cider apple.
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Spartan
Spartan is a McIntosh style apple, easy to grow, crunchy, with a sweet delicate wine-like flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Sturmer Pippin
A sharp-tasting late-season Victorian apple which keeps very well.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Suntan
Suntan is a high-quality late-season dessert apple, with an excellent aromatic flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 5
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Three Counties
Three Counties is an early-ripening bittersweet cider apple.
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Wickson Crab
Wickson crab is a popular American hard-cider variety.
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Winter Banana
A good quality American apple variety with a faint banana-like flavor.
- Picking season: Very late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Wolf River
Wolf River is the perfect cooking apple - reliable, cold-hardy, disease resistant.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile