Binet Rouge cider apple trees

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

Binet Rouge is a traditional small French hard cider apple. It is one of the varieties authorised for use in the production of cider classified in the "appellation d'origine controlee" of the Pays Auge, in the region of Normandy.

It is not the easiest of varieties to grow, but it produces a very high quality bittersweet juice.

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Growing and Training

Binet Rouge is a weak-growing but relatively heavy-cropping variety, and well-known as a biennial bearer. It is important to prevent it setting too much fruit in the "on" year.

In traditional French orchards production on mature trees will be in the range 20-30 tonnes per hectare, which is slightly below the average for French cider varieties.

Binet Rouge flowers over a long period and is a useful pollinator of other varieties.

Binet Rouge is regarded as susceptible to fireblight, mildew and scab in French orchards, and resistant to canker.

Binet Rouge characteristics

• Gardening skillExperienced
• Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
• Flowering group4
• Disease resistanceAverage
• Picking seasonVery late
• Season of use2-3 weeks
• Food usesHard cider
• Cold hardiness (USDA)Zone 5 (-29C)
• Summer average maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)
• Country of originFrance

Similar varieties

• 
  Amere Nouvelle
  Amere Nouvelle is a traditional French bittersweet cider apple.
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  Dabinett
  Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
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  Kingston Black
  Kingston Black is one of the premier English cider varieties and produces a bittersharp juice.
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  Michelin
  Michelin (or Normandie Blanc) is a traditional French cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.

More about 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.