Limousin apple

Pomme du Limousin

What it is

Golden Delicious, grown in the Limousin since the 1950s on crystalline plateaux, in orchards generally 350 to 450 m up. Cold nights and warm, sunny days there build both sugar and acid, so the appellation demands at least 12.5 °Brix, 3.7 g/L of malic acid and a firmness of 5 kg/cm², and the fruit takes a pink blush. Picked by hand, never treated after harvest and held in controlled atmosphere, it keeps its crunch until the appellation lapses, between 1 June and 1 August depending on colour.

In the kitchen

Its firm, acid-backed flesh holds its shape in a tart or sautéed in butter; cook it longer for a compote. Keep it in the fridge crisper: it has come out of cold store and softens fast in a warm fruit bowl.

Goes with

Butter Cinnamon Vanilla Walnut Calvados Black pudding Cream Chestnut

Same species

Apple Calvados Cornouaille cider Cotentin cider Perche cider Pays d'Auge cider

In season alongside

Cherry Datterino tomato Solliès fig Grape Grape must Jabuticaba

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