The 2019 harvest marks the third year of sourcing apples for ANXO ciders and we want to share our excitement over what has been a tremendous season.
To produce our sugar-free #applesonly cider we buy at harvest the best apples grown by farmers we know, and this year we got quite a bounty! We're still designing the ciders we will create from them in 2020, but at this time we know the cast of apples we will be working with. Here's a recap of our 2019 Harvest:
2019 Harvest Summary
August - December
1,214,477 lb of apples purchased (608 tons!)
35 different apple varietals
Sourced from 14 orchards in six states
Apples
What's our secret to making super tasty sugar-free cider? The Apples!
GoldRush 48% Rhode Island Greening 20% Northern Spy 11% RedLove 10% Harrison 1%
The remaining 10% are made up of the following:
Albemarle Pippin
Arkansas Black
Ashmead's Kernel
Baldwin
Belle de Boskoop
Black Oxford
Black Twig
Blue Pearmain
Burford's Redflesh
Chisel Jersey
Cox's Orange Pippin
Dabinett
DC-foraged crabapples
Esopus Spitzenberg
Frequin Rouge
Golden Russet
Hewe's Crab
Hudson Golden Gem
Karmijn de Sonneville
Kingston Black
Manchurian Crab
Marie Menard
Muscadet de Lense
Orleans Reinette
Porter's Perfection
Roxbury Russet
St. Martin
Stayman Winesap
Wickson Crab
Yarlington Mill
States
Where our 1,215,477 lb of apples were grown
Pennsylvania 49%
Virginia 34%
Washington 13%
Vermont 3%
Maryland 1%
Oregon 1%
District of Columbia <1%
Orchards
Who grows your apples? These are the men and women that grow ours
78 Acres Farm (MD)
Bear Mountain Orchards (PA)
Fruit Hill Orchard (VA)
EZ Orchards (OR)
Glaize Apples (VA)
McCleaf's Orchard (PA)
Mickley's Orchard (PA)
Peters Orchards (PA)
Saunders Brothers (VA)
Scott Farm Orchard (VT)
Silver Creek & Seaman's Orchards (VA)
Snowdrift Cider Co. (WA)
Sunrise Orchards (VT)
Susquehanna Orchards (PA)