Regional fruit

PGI Rhône-Alpes Abricot des Baronnies Golden as the Drôme sunshine, this sweet apricot is born in the mountain orchards of the Baronnies… AOCPDO Languedoc-Roussillon Abricots rouges du Roussillon Introduced by the Arabs more than ten centuries ago, the apricot tree found in the Roussillon plain… Label Rouge Réunion Ananas Victoria de La Réunion Smaller than its imported cousins, sweeter, more fragrant — the ananas Victoria de La Réunion is the… Aquitaine Cerise d'Itxassou “In the heart of the Pays basque, the village of Itxassou is blanketed in pink and white in spring… Picardy Cerise de Sauvigny Only two producers remain in Reuilly-Sauvigny to pick the cherry that once made the fortune of Picard… PGI Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Cerises des coteaux du Ventoux The first French PDO (AOP)/PGI cherry, born on the slopes of the giant of Provence, bright red and… AOCPDO Midi-Pyrénées Chasselas de Moissac Golden and translucent under the sun of Quercy blanc, Chasselas de Moissac is the only table grape to… PDO Rhône-Alpes Châtaigne d'Ardèche "The "bread tree" of the Ardèche Cévennes has reclaimed its pride of place — the Châtaigne d'Ardèche… Auvergne Châtaigne de Mourjou ‘Mourjou, Châtaigneraie cantalienne’: the Cantal village that turned its bread tree into a rediscovered… AOCPDO Languedoc-Roussillon Châtaigne des Cévennes The bread tree of the Cévennes mountains: a sweet, melting, subtly astringent fruit, sustained by thirty… Label Rouge Limousin Châtaigne du Limousin The châtaigne du Limousin is autumn gold fallen from thousand-year-old trees, the sacred sustenance of… PGI Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Citron de Menton Bathed in the Riviera sunshine, sheltered by the Alps and caressed by the Mediterranean, the Citron de… PGILabel Rouge Corsica Clémentine de Corse A green leaf attached to the stalk — that is all it takes to recognise the only French clementine.… AOCPDO Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Figue de Solliès The Bourjassotte Noire of Solliès: when the Var sunshine concentrates a thousand years of tradition into… Languedoc-Roussillon Figues de Vézénobres On the facades of the medieval town, figs dry under the Gard sun just as they did seven centuries ago… Nord-Pas-de-Calais Fraise de Samer Beneath the Boulonnais bocage, in the former canton of Samer, local legend has it that the land rests on… PGI Aquitaine Fraise du Périgord The first strawberry in Europe to obtain a PGI in 2004, Fraise du Périgord captures in its juicy red… PGI Languedoc-Roussillon Fraises de Nîmes On the rounded pebbles of the Costière, a small, bright red strawberry comes into production from early… Picardy Fruits rouges de Noyon Every first Sunday in July, for the duration of a market, Noyon once again becomes the French capital of… PGI Corsica Kiwi de Corse A naked fruit, free from chemicals — grown on the eastern plain where returnees from Algeria transformed… PGILabel Rouge Aquitaine Kiwi de l'Adour Born in 1965 from a gamble by Henri Pédelucq, an agronomist from the Landes, Kiwi de l'Adour has become… Label Rouge Réunion Letchi de La Réunion For six weeks in December, the slopes of eastern La Réunion are draped in scarlet clusters — the Kwaï Mi… PGI Guadeloupe Melon de Guadeloupe Under the blazing sun of the Antilles, the Charentais jaune of Grande-Terre ripens at its own island… PGI Lorraine Mirabelle de Lorraine A little golden sphere suspended in the orchards of Lorraine, the mirabelle encapsulates the light of… AOCPDO Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Muscat du Ventoux A bluish berry veiled in bloom, crisp to the bite and muscat on the palate — the table grape that bears… Rhône-Alpes Myrtille forézienne A violet-black berry, smaller than a marble, gathered with a comb on the slopes of the monts du Forez… PDO Rhône-Alpes Noix de Grenoble Since 1938, the first French fruit to bear an Appellation of Origin — Noix de Grenoble is a pioneer… AOCPDO Aquitaine Noix du Périgord Beneath its golden shells, Noix du Périgord has for centuries preserved the secret of favoured terroirs… Saint Pierre and Miquelon Platebière An orange-coloured wild berry that is not planted but sought out, across the windswept peat bogs of… Rhône-Alpes Poire de la Valloire In the valley that the Gallo-Romans called "Vallis Aurea", the golden valley, pear trees replaced… PGI Corsica Pomelo de Corse When a Corsican offers you a pomelo, they give you two gifts: the sweet, aromatic juice of a fruit that… AOCPDO Limousin Pomme du Limousin “The Pomme du Limousin is the fruit of the Massif central tamed by man, poised between altitude and… PGILabel Rouge Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Pommes des Alpes de Haute Durance The only triple-certified apple in France, picked between 450 and 900 m altitude in Alpine orchards, it… PGI Rhône-Alpes Pommes et Poires de Savoie In the terraced orchards of the Alpine valleys, between lac Léman and the massif de la Chartreuse… PGI Aquitaine Pruneau d'Agen Nine centuries of history are concentrated in this fruit dried under the Gascon sun — from the… PGI Alsace Quetsche d'Alsace ‘At the end of summer, when mist veils the mornings, Alsatian orchards grow heavy with fruit as purple… Lorraine Quetsche de Lorraine A blue-violet plum veiled in bloom, less celebrated than its golden cousin the mirabelle, yet just as…