Our Variety Assessment

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

Poire à Côte d’Or is intended for rediscovering traditional slow-cooked winter pears. Its large, pink-blushed fruit remains coarse and crisp when raw but becomes much more aromatic after prolonged poaching or around an hour in the oven. The vigorous, healthy tree shows useful scab resistance and suits standards particularly well. This is a genuine cooking pear rather than a dessert cultivar.

Poire à côte d’or

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Poire à Côte d’Or pear tree, a large hard winter cooking pear, picked in October and eaten from November to January.

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

Pear rootstock options

Farold 87 - approx 4.5m mature height

Kirchensaller – approx. 6 m mature height

Pyrodwarf – approx. 4 m mature height

Quince BA29 – approx. 3 m mature height

Quince BA29 with Comice interstem – approx. 3 m mature height

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SKU: 13451 Category: Cooking pear trees

Description

Poire à Côte d’Or pear tree produces large pears intended for cooking. The flesh is coarse, typical of a winter cooking pear, and is best suited to slow cooking on a stove or in the oven.

These pears are very firm at harvest. Their culinary quality is revealed through long, gentle cooking, which concentrates the sugars and brings out their full flavour.

The fruit is picked in October and is eaten from November to January.

Poire à Côte d’Or has no particular disease sensitivity and shows good-quality vegetation.

Flowering is late. It pollinates well with Légipont, Triomphe de Vienne and other compatible pear varieties flowering at the same time.

This pear is an emblematic variety from Hauts-de-France and was part of the region’s popular culinary tradition. It has also been known as Belle de Moncheaux or Saint Mathieu d’Hiver.

The fruit has some visual similarity to Saint Mathieu, notably with its pink cheek.

This type of hardy cooking pear is well suited to standard tree cultivation. We produce Poire à Côte d’Or on selected pear rootstocks, with several tree forms available depending on stock.