Ozark Gold

The Ozark Gold, originally from Missouri (USA), started to spread around the 70s. It is a very interesting cultivar both for its productivity and for the lack of russeting. The skin is yellow while the flesh, cream-colored, is firm, delicate, with a weak acidity and a medium sweet flavor. Due to its bruise sensitivity, it is recommended to avoid too much handling.

Gala Group

The Gala Group is a summer variety, originally from New Zealand. It has good organoleptic properties and is particularly interesting for the high productivity and the excellent agronomic characteristics, even though in the flat country the fruits may have some color imperfections. The Gala apple is medium-sized and characterized by a bicolored (red and yellow) skin. Its flesh is crisp, very firm, with a sweet and thirst-quenching flavor. Compared to the other summer varieties, the Gala apple keeps longer.

Golden Delicious

The Golden Delicious, originally from America, is the most common apple variety nowadays. Its shape is slightly conic and one of its main features is that it keeps long without losing its quality.
Its skin is smooth, slightly russeted, green-yellow colored with pronounced lenticels.
In presence of temperature reductions and high humidity in the period before maturing, the apple tends to assume a pink blush, the so called “faccetta”. The flesh is crisp, fragrant, juicy and very sweet. It is an ideal ingredient for cakes and tarts and thanks to it high sugar content it is appreciated by the little ones.
Thanks to the environment and the cultivation techniques, the Veronese Golden apple appears russeted, crisp and with a considerable level of sugar.

Granny Smith

Thanks to its green color, the Granny Smith is surely among the most recognizable varieties.
It was born in 1868 from a casual crossbreed in Australia, near Sidney, where every year the Granny Smith Festival is held.
It is known as “the apple for diabetic people” because it has a low sugar content and is very acid; for the same reason it is recommended in slimming diets. Its flesh is juicy and crisp, the flavor is tart, and it is usually appreciated in salads and sorbets.

Fuji

The Fuji variety originally comes, as its name suggests, from Japan, where it is still quite common and appreciated. While in Japan its roots are ancient, it is a recent (80’s) arrival in Europe.
It is big and round, characterized by a red-purple colored skin. Its flesh is particularly appreciated because it is crisp, juicy, tasty and intensely sweet. It is different from the other apples because of its predominant sugary component and its low acidity. It is among the best keepers yet it maintains unaltered its organoleptic properties even in the long period.

Red Chief

The Red Chief apple is considered the apple par excellence. Its red color, its long and narrow shape, and its five rounded tips make it, in the collective imaginary, the perfect apple, from the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden to Snow White’s poison apple. The solid red skin can be striped and more or less bright according to the soil.
This apple usually prefers hilly areas and it is here that maturing it assumes a more intense coloring. It is a fragrant, juicy, and sweet fruit. The flesh is very delicate, crisp and floury and it is perfect for cooking meat and cakes.