Highly regarded as a vintage, bitter-sweet cider apple, this Normandy varietal is also used in the production of Calvados, which is one of France's flagship apple spirits.

French bittersweet cider apple. Precocious, productive tree. Ripens mid-September(in England). Winter hardy.

Muscadet de Dieppe is really only known to have been widely grown in Normandy, France, as far back as 1750.

Small to medium, round, flattened. The base colour is yellow to golden yellow, blushed reddish orange on the sun-exposed face, slightly striped.

The flesh is cream coloured. Tender and soft. Sweet and aromatic with hints of honey, bananas, nuts and fresh-cut grass. Sometimes slightly spicy.

Makes a dark amber, full-bodied single-vintage, dry cider that is fruity, slightly astringent and complex.

Resistant to most disease.