Mountain apple juice Jonagold

Kohl Gourmet Mountain Apple Juice Jonagold, a crowd-pleaser

The Kohl Gourmet Mountain Apple Juice Jonagold is a single-varietal, naturally cloudy direct juice made from hand-picked mountain apples from Ritten in South Tyrol. Sweet, soft, and elegant, with the scent of ripe pears – it is the lightest and most accessible of Thomas Kohl’s single-varietal juices.

Mountain Apple Juice Jonagold is the reconciler in Thomas Kohl’s Gourmet line: a single-varietal direct juice, sweet, soft, and elegant, pressed from one of the six most widely grown apple varieties in the world. It is the lightest in color of the Kohl Gourmet juices – and the most accessible in the range. If you want to start with Kohl, start here.

The Jonagold sits in the glass a bright straw yellow. It has an intense aroma of ripe pears, with a slightly nutty quality, and on the palate, it is soft, juicy, and elegant with a silky finish. Where the Gravensteiner plays with acidity, the Jonagold gives way – a juice that contradicts no one.

With risotto, cream cheese, and fine pastries

The Mountain Apple Juice Jonagold pairs well with antipasti featuring cream cheese, hearty risotto, and roasted meats – and it even stands up to cakes and fine pastries.

It likes things hearty, salty, spicy, or sweet, making it the only one among the Gourmet juices that truly goes with everything. With a sage and butter risotto, the pear note picks up the sweetness of the rice, while the nuttiness meets the Parmesan. With apple pie in the afternoon, it is the most obvious and beautiful choice anyway.

From Jonathan and Golden Delicious, crossed in New York in 1943

The Jonagold was born in 1943 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station as a cross between Jonathan and Golden Delicious – the name reflects both parents syllable for syllable.

It inherited its aroma from its mother, the Jonathan, and its firm texture from its father, the Golden Delicious. It took ten years until it was selected from the field in 1953 under the sober number N.Y. 43013-1, and another fifteen years before Roger Way released it in 1968. From there, it began its journey to becoming Europe's leading apple variety.

Its sunny yellow fruits have loose, yellowish flesh and a long stem; as they ripen, they develop bright orange-to-strawberry-red cheeks on the sunny side. An apple that looks beautiful even on the tree.

Warm days, deep soil, nearly 900 meters

The Jonagold requires warm locations with fertile, deep soil – exactly what it finds on the Ritten, where Thomas Kohl manages his orchards at an altitude of nearly 900 meters.

There, the apples ripen slowly because intense daytime sun and cool nights alternate – and the slower the fruit ripens, the more finely its aroma will later be defined in the glass. Each variety is picked by hand individually and in several harvesting rounds, and gently processed the very next morning – as Thomas has done since the beginning at the Troidner Hof farm.

On its way into the bottle, the juice is only briefly pasteurized and quickly cooled again. This preserves the special taste of each individual variety – in the end, there is nothing in the bottle but apple. It has been certified vegan by the European Vegetarian Union.

To let the pear note show itself

Served at 8 to 10 degrees in a stemmed glass, its pear note shines through. Once opened, it remains fresh for 6 days if refrigerated; stored unopened in a dark place, it lasts at least a year. The Pinova has a more robust profile; the Kohl Gourmet collection brings the whole family together.