Brandies from Old Apple Varieties
The potential of old apple varieties often remains untapped. Agroscope and Fructus are testing which old apple varieties might stage a comeback as the raw material for distilling brandy.
There are around 1200 genetically distinct apple varieties in Switzerland. This diversity is useful for research for the breeding of new, disease-robust varieties and for a varied range on retail shelves. However, many old, unused varieties are increasingly fading into obscurity. Some of these could gain new currency as the basis of brandies. Agroscope and Fructus are therefore testing which old apple varieties might stage a comeback as the raw material for brandy.
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Gene Resources: Fruit
At the behest of the association ‘Fructus’, and funded by the FOAG (NAP-PGREL [= National Action Plan for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture]), four projects concerning the description of fruit genetic resources will be conducted in the ‘Breeding and Genetic Resources: Fruit’ Research Group at Agroscope Wädenswil.
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Aimed at agricultural practitioners, the information is shared on our WhatsApp channels 'Agroscope_fr' (French) and 'Agroscope_de' (German).