Our Variety Assessment

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

Verdot is particularly valuable as a blending pear, with small fruit contributing structure and length rather than exceptionally high sugar. The tree is less vigorous than many perry pears, begins bearing quickly and crops fairly regularly. Its incompatibility with quince rootstocks must be taken seriously: use a pear seedling rootstock or a proven compatible interstem.

Verdot

Price range: 28,00 € through 59,75 €

A traditional Norman perry pear variety producing small tannic fruit that brings body and length to perry blends.

Pear rootstock options

Farold 87 - approx 4.5m mature height

Kirchensaller – approx. 6 m mature height

Pyrodwarf – approx. 4 m mature height

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

Choose your tree form

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

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

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SKU: 21520 Categories: Pear trees, Perry pear trees

Description

Verdot Perry Pear Tree is a traditional Norman perry pear variety used in the production of perry, including blends associated with the Domfrontais region.

The fruit is small, generally around 40 to 60 g, and is not especially sweet. Its main interest lies in its high tannin and polyphenol content, which brings structure, body and length to perry blends.

Verdot is usually harvested from late October to early November. It can be pressed with other perry pear varieties such as Champagne or Fausset to create a more balanced and complex blend.

The tree flowers from early to mid-season and pollinates well with Champagne. Like many traditional perry pear trees, it is vigorous and naturally forms a broad umbrella-shaped habit.

This variety is traditionally grown with little intervention and is not known for any major disease sensitivity in orchard production. Under suitable conditions, Verdot can produce around 20 tonnes per hectare on average.

Our Verdot perry pear trees are grafted onto different rootstocks and offered in several forms. The rootstock determines the vigour and eventual adult size of the tree.