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Best apple varieties for juicing and pressing

All apples can be juiced, but if you want press your own fresh apple juice these varieties have the best flavours and juice colours.

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  • Ashmead's Kernel apple trees
    A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Bardsey apple trees
    A hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Bloody Ploughman apple trees
    An old Scottish apple variety, named for the crimson-red colour of its skin and stained flesh.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Bramley 20 apple trees
    Bramley 20 is a naturally smaller version of Bramley's Seedling (the apples are the same size though).
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Bramley's Seedling apple trees
    Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Brownlees Russet is a high quality late-season dessert russet apple.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Chivers Delight apple trees
    Chivers Delight is an under-rated Cox-style apple from Cambridgeshire. Crisp and sweet.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Claygate Pearmain apple trees
    Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Court Pendu Plat apple trees
    Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 6
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Cox's Orange Pippin apple trees
    Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Crispin apple trees
    Crispin (also known as Mutsu) is a high quality apple from Japan, with a good flavour, and also sharp enough for cooking.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • D'Arcy Spice apple trees
    An old English apple variety, yet with a unique flavour and many unusual qualities.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Devonshire Quarrenden apple trees
    A very old English summer apple, with a vinous strawberry flavour, grown throughout the UK.
    • Picking season: Very early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Discovery apple trees
    Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Eden apple trees
    A new dual-purpose apple which has a naturally non-browning flesh, ideal for salads and fresh apple juice.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Fiesta apple trees
    Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Gala apple trees
    Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Greensleeves apple trees
    Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Grenadier apple trees
    Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Hidden Rose apple trees
    Hidden Rose is named for the unexpected pink flesh hidden behind the plain green skin.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Howgate Wonder apple trees
    Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • James Grieve apple trees
    James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Jonagold apple trees
    Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Katy apple trees
    Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Keswick Codlin apple trees
    Keswick Codlin is a popular early-season cooking apple, easy to grow, and productive in most climates.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Kidd's Orange Red apple trees
    Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • King of the Pippins apple trees
    A popular and versatile dual-purpose apple, widely grown in the Victorian era.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Lane's Prince Albert apple trees
    A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Limelight apple trees
    Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Lord Derby apple trees
    Lord Derby is a high-quality mid/late-season traditional English cooking apple, cooks to a chunky puree.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Lord Lambourne apple trees
    Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Meridian apple trees
    Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Peasgood's Nonsuch apple trees
    Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Pendragon is a red-fleshed dual-purpose apple from Cornwall.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 6
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Pinova apple trees
    An attractive disease-resistant dessert apple, capable of producing good clean fruit without chemical sprays.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Pitmaston Pine Apple apple trees
    A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Prince William is a modern bittersweet cider variety from the famous Long Ashton Research Station.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Queen Cox apple trees
    A modern self-fertile form of the renowned Cox's Orange Pippin, with arguably even better flavour.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Queen of the Realm apple trees
    A new apple variety, released in 2022 to celebrate the Queen's platinum jubilee.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Rajka apple trees
    Rajka is a modern disease-resistant heavy-cropping apple variety with a good sweet/sharp flavour.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Red Devil apple trees
    Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Red Falstaff apple trees
    Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Rosemary Russet apple trees
    A classic English russet apple with excellent flavours, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Rosette apple trees
    Probably the best-flavoured of the pink-fleshed apple varieties, and produces lovely pink juice.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Saint Edmund's Russet apple trees
    Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Saturn apple trees
    An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Spartan apple trees
    Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Sunset apple trees
    Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Surprize apple trees
    An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Tickled Pink apple trees
    A new red-fleshed apple variety, with attractive crimson blossom, also known as Baya® Marisa.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Tydeman's Late Orange apple trees
    Tydeman's Late Orange is an excellent late-season Cox-style aromatic apple.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile