Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Wolf River is an essential variety for growers seeking spectacular fruit and an outstanding cooking apple. This very cold-hardy, disease-resistant American cultivar produces enormous, firm and sharp apples that retain their shape when cooked. They are excellent for pies, sauces, baking and apple butter, although less refined than the finest apples intended primarily for fresh eating.

Wolf River

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Wolf River is the perfect cooking apple – reliable, cold-hardy, disease resistant.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 4340 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

If you are looking for a completely reliable disease-resistant cooking apple, this is it.

Wolf River is a very large culinary apple, with a good tart flavor, dating back to the 19th century. It is best used in the kitchen, and slices will keep their shape when cooked. The flesh is quite dry – a useful quality when baking as it means the pastry is not flooded with too much liquid.

Wolf River applesauce often has an attractive pale pink color.

This is a fool-proof variety which will keep you supplied with heavyweight apples with little effort on your part.