Product Description

Kingston Black cider apple is a cider apple with very pretty skin colouring – crimson and streaked darker crimson on yellow background, flesh yellowish and tender, with only a mild acidity, makes a bittersharp cider. Also known as Black Taunton, the Kingston Black cider apple was a popular cider apple in Somersetshire, and is perhaps the most well known of all cider apples available today in Australia.

Ripens: April

Pollinate with: partially self fertile, Sweet Coppin, Freyburg, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Lady Williams, Cox’s Orange.

Type: Bittersharp

Chill hours: 1000+ hours (very high)