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Tasting notes and identification advice for apples, pears, plums, cherries and other orchard varieties.

Pear varieties

  • Glou Morçeau Pear
    An old Belgian pear with a delicate sweet flavor, and a forerunner of great explosion of Belgian pear varieties in the early 19th century. Succeeds best in a warm climate.

  • Gorham Pear
    Developed in New York, but very much in the European style. Good flavor and versatile, can be considered an improved Bartlett.

  • A traditional Gloucestershire perry pear, which produces a low tannin perry.