dunkerton late sweet

Dunkerton Late Sweet is an English sweet cider cultivar that originated in Baltonsborough, Somerset, UK in the 1940’s. The fruit is a small-medium in size (5.5-6.2 cm—2-2.5”), oblate, clear greenish-yellow with a faint, pinkish blush that covers 20% of the surface with a medium to large-size, russet stem splash. The large russet splash extends to the edge of the cavity but not over. The basin is shallow, and the calyx is partly to entirely open. The fruit visually resembles a small Rhode Island Greening or Northwestern Greening. We obtained our scionwood from the USDA in Geneva (PI 589666). Currently growing at Super Chilly Farm, but, as yet, we have not had a large enough crop to do a critique.