Apple Juice

The market for traditional variety apples in recent years has proved to be limited so in October 2005 we decided to start pressing our own apple juice, sales have increased and now we have several different varieties available,

2010 stocks have all gone and we are busy with 2011 varieties. New for 2011 Worcester & Bramley .  The 75cl green glass bottles are 100% single variety apple juice retails. They retails for £2.10 - £2.20 per bottle and can be found at 'The Barn Shop', 'Rochford Country Meats' in Tenbury Wells and also available from the farm. Wholesale requests welcome

BATH 'n WEST 2010 - 1st time showing of our apple juice, against over 50 bottles of juice from Cornwall to Cheshire

Class 8 Single Variety Juice - 3rd Prize (Russet)

Class 9 Blended Apple Juice - 1st Prize (Cox & Russet) Also reserve champion apple juice.

2011 varieties

LAXTON FORTUNE (SUPER SWEET)

Often said to taste like pears.  This super sweet juice has a wonderful flavour and aroma similar to that of pears.  A firm favourite with children and for those with a sweeter penchant.

Parentage: Wealthy X Cox's Orange Pippin.
LORD LAMBOURNE (MEDIUM SWEET)

A relatively rare waxy apple, this juice is medium sweet and refreshing with a burst of peary nectar. It has a depth of taste that makes it great to drink with food and is good to cook. 

Parentage: James Grieve X Worcester Pearmain.

DISCOVERY (MEDIUM SWEET)

First apple of the season on the farm. Generally picked in early August it has an aromatic and flowery flavour full of summer.  This juice is from apple very ripe which give it the lovely pink colour.

Parentage: Worcester Pearmain X Beauty of Bath

WORCESTER (SWEET)

A rich, mellow and smooth juice with complex floral aromas and an almost honeyed palate. Sweet and full of apple flavour.

Parentage: Thought to be a seedling from a Devonshire Quarrenden.

BRAMLEY (SHARP)

Tantalisingly sharp, fresh and fruity for those with discerning taste for the dryer palate. A crisp and tangy juice made from the Queen of culinary apples.

The first Bramley tree was raised by Betsy Brailsford in Southwell, Nottinghamshire in about 1812 - when she planted a pip from an apple she was eating.

BRAMLEY & WORCESTER (MEDIUM)

The flavour combinations of these two extreme juices marries together to make a scrumptious drink for that refreshes with a wonderful flavour.

 

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Background Woodston Fruit

Our fruit is very much farmed on a traditional basis, our 'young' orchards are 50 years old, with many tree a lot older.  We resisted the temptation in the 1980's, when many got grants to pull out the orchards.  In the last 10 years we have in fact planted more plums and cooking apples.

Like the rest of the farm, the orchards are run extensively with a minimal amount of sprays, just enough to get a crop.

Fruit once being a dominant feature of the Teme Valley has had take a back seat to all the other enterprises going on throughout this now changing area.  With the fall of the supermarket take up of 'English' fruit and a want it now all year round culture, the British fruit industry has been hit hard.

However we may be having light at the end of the tunnel, with several renowned celebrity chefs championing the 'Buy Local' and reducing airmails themes, coupled with the only lost superb flavours of 'old fashioned' varieties, consumers are beginning to see the light.  

Apples

We grow 7 different varieties of apples

  • Discovery - Early variety, bright red, but best picked a little later as they appearances can be deceptive

  • Worcester -Native to the county, now not grown seriously commercially, but a bright red lovely flavoured apple.

  • Laxton Fortune - The sweetest juiciest apple you'll ever taste, but susceptible to bruising so not usually seen on supermarket shelves.

  • Lord Lambourne - Winning it's rightful place back in the hearts of the great British buyer.  It'll give Braeburn a run for it's money anytime,

  • Russet - An unforgettable aromatic flavour, a very forgettable skin texture.

  • Cox - The great British apple.

  • Newtons - A dual purpose fruit sharp for eating, but edible and great for cooking.

All are very traditional varieties, but very distinctive. 

Plums

 

 

Cherries

July 2011 - Thanks to all our loyal customers, especially Richard at the Barn Shop Tenbury Wells, Cherry are now over for this year