blanc mollet

Blanc Mollet is a French Bittersweet cider apple. White Beech, the historic English cider cultivar, may be a synonym of Blanc Mollet. The English apple historian John Teiser wrote to me, “White Beech had the same fingerprint as the French varieties we have under the names of Abondance and Blanc Mollet.  Having checked against the INRA book I suspect they all should be Blanc Mollet.”

We obtained our Blanc Mollet scionwood from the USDA (PI 162719) in the spring of 2016, and we planted out in November 2017. Blanc Mollet’s bittersweet fruit is small (1.75”- 4.5cm), round, yellow, with a medium-length, thin stem and a very shallow basin. You could easily mistake it for a wild seedling by the side of the road. We pick ours on about November 6 and press it a week or two later. Currently growing at Super Chilly Farm.