Perhaps the most famous variety from the English county of Yorkshire, Ribston Pippin is a strong-tasting 'aromatic' apple, very popular in Victorian times. One of our favorite fresh eating, here are Luke’s taste notes from 2023 Ribston harvest in Missoula: “Honey flavor with hints of grape. Dense apple with interesting woody texture that makes you continually want more. Decent acidity and good sweetness. Medium thickness in terms of the skin.”

Used for culinary purposes and for a sweet/sharp hard or soft cider, the flavor is at its best a month or so after picking. Most likely the parent of the world-renowned Cox's Orange Pippin, Ribston Pippin is a yellow, flushed orange, and streaked red with russet at the base and apex.

For pollination, plant with our other cider apples or Cox’s Orange Pippin, Macoun, McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Pristine or Rubymac or any of our other cider apples. We’ve seen this do well in zone 3, so we are actually bumping up the hardiness on this.

These trees are 5-7 tall bare root and grafted onto full-size M116 rootstock.

Image Courtesy of Markus Hagenlocher under CC3.0