Variety description

Golden Delicious

Taste:
Juicy, sweet aroma with fine fruit acid
Origin:
Random seedling around 1890
Harvest:
Mid-September
Availability:
Mid-September to July

Gala

Taste:
Low acidity, sweet aroma, crunchy
Origin:
Kidd's Orange x Golden Delicious
Harvest:
Mid-August
Availability:
Mid-August to mid-March

Fuji

Taste:
Aromatic, crunchy, juicy with a high fruit sugar content
Origin:
Rall's Janet x Delicious, 1939
Harvest:
Start/mid-October
Availability:
October to May

Red Delicious

Taste:
Crispy, juicy, sweet with an aroma typical of this variety
Origin:
Mutation of the Delicious variety, 1921
Harvest:
Early/mid-September
Availability:
Early/mid-September to May

Granny Smith

Taste:
fresh, juicy with an acidic tang and firm flesh
Origin:
Random seedling, 1868
Harvest:
Early October
Availability:
Beginning of October to mid-June

Morgenduft

Taste:
Fresh, firm flesh, sweetly acidic
Origin:
Mutation of Rome Beauty 1816
Harvest:
Mid-October
Availability:
Mid-October to June

Kanada Renette

Taste:
Very distinctive, flavoursome and aromatic
Harvest:
Mid September - grown exclusively in mountain orchards
Availability:
End of September to June

Winesap

Taste:
Crunchy, extremely juicy, sweet and very finely acidic
Origin:
Seeding from Winter Winesap, 1875
Harvest:
Start/mid-October
Availability:
Start/mid-October to May

Braeburn

Taste:
Juicy, crunchy with firm fruit flesh, pleasant balance of sweetness and acidity
Origin:
Seedling from the Lady Hamilton family, 1952
Harvest:
Start of October
Availability:
Start of October to end of May

Pinova

Taste:
very crunchy, juicy and crisp, well-balanced sweet-tart flavour
Origin:
Golden Delicious and Clivia
Harvest:
End of September
Availability:
October to March