Cider apple trees

Make your own hard cider by planting some of our organic traditional cider apple varieties.

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  Amere de Berthencourt

  

  Amere de Berthencourt is a traditional French bittersweet cider apple.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
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  Amere Nouvelle

  

  Amere Nouvelle is a traditional French bittersweet cider apple.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Bedan des Parts

  

  A traditional French cider variety, producing a high quality bittersweet juice.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 6
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  Binet Rouge

  Binet Rouge is a traditional French hard cider variety from the Pays d'Auge area of Normandy.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
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  Dabinett

  

  Best seller

  Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.

  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 6
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  Du Verger

  

  Du Verger is an old French bittersweet cider apple variety.

  24.25€buy

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Ellis Bitter

  Ellis Bitter is a traditional and popular English cider apple, producing a bittersweet juice.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 5
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  Frequin Rouge

  

  Best seller

  Frequin Rouge is one of the most important of the traditional French hard-cider apple varieties.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
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  Harry Masters Jersey

  

  Harry Masters Jersey is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.

  From 24.25€ to 24.95€buy

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
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  Kingston Black

  

  Best seller

  Kingston Black is one of the premier English cider varieties and produces a bittersharp juice.

  24.25€buy

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
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  Marseigna

  

  Marseigna is a traditional French cider variety, producing a high quality bitter sweet juice.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
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  Medaille d'Or

  

  Medaille d'Or is a traditional French cider variety, which produces a full bittersweet juice.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 6
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  Michelin

  

  Michelin (or Normandie Blanc) is a traditional French cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.

  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
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  Muscadet de Dieppe

  

  A very old French bittersweet cider variety.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
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  Reinette Abry

  

  A traditional dual-purpose yellow/green apple from northern France.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Wickson Crab

  

  Best seller

  Wickson crab is a popular American hard-cider variety.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
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  Yarlington Mill

  

  Yarlington Mill is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 5

How to choose Cider apple trees

Cider production in Europe is traditionally associated with three main regions - Asturias in north west Spain, Bretagne and Normandie in north west France, and the "west country" area of south-west England. These regions all face the Atlantic ocean and have cool temperate maritime climates.

Cider can of course be made with any variety of apples, but in these three regions apple varieties have evolved which are specifically intended for cider production - they have high levels of tannins which give "body" to the resulting cider, but which make them very unpalatable to eat fresh.

Good quality cider is almost always made with a blend of different apple varieties, using bitter, sweet, and sharp flavour components. It is quite common to mix in regular cooking and dessert apples to lend extra flavours.

If you are in an area with a hotter continental climate (with average summer maximum temperatures routinely over 30C) then you might want to consider using apple varieties that can withstand warmer temperatures, but still have good juice qualities. In this case rather than using European varieties you might want to seek inspiration from the very different "hard cider" traditions of North America, where dessert and crab-apples are widely used.

We have a good range of traditional English and French cider varieties, as well as a number of mainstream apple varieties with good juice qualities that lend themselves to cider production.