Pig Aderyn Year:2 YR juicy cream flesh with a

juicy cream flesh with a lovely tang

distinctly tannic developing a sweetness later

Harvest November

Evelyn suggests it was originally a Gloucestershire apple that spread to Herefordshire

Pig Aderyn Year:2 YR juicy cream flesh with aA Welsh eating and cider apple. Large oblate fruit with yellow skin, bright red flush streaking most of the fruit. Some russet. Full blossom second week of May, drops in September. Translates as 'Bird's Beak' and found in St. Dogmaels, Pembs, believed to have been planted by the Tiron monks at the abbey for the purposes of cider making. A sharp with fine aroma, high quality blender with great intensity. Permission to use photograph by Danny Thorogood