Medium, great depth of complex flavours
Great Taste Award Winning
Duskin Cox juice was one of 5,680 products to receive an award from Great Taste in 2025 (which is only 39.6% of the total products entered). We were awarded a Great Taste 1-star – ‘food and drink that delivers fantastic flavour’. The Great Taste accreditation scheme, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, values taste above all else. Each product in the line-up for judging is blind-tasted and all packaging is removed, so it cannot be identified, before entering a robust, layered judging process. This year saw food and drink products from an extraordinary 110 different countries across the world.
The Cox juice is usually available all year round but the apple season is September – April
Also known as Cox’s Orange Pippin the name has been shortened over time as people have become so familiar with it. It makes an amazing juice with a great depth of flavour so is a very popular variety, in fact we can sell twice as much Cox juice as any other variety. However, it doesn’t give as high a yield of apples per tree as other varieties and supermarkets have tended to stock things like Gala and Braeburn instead. This has the knock on effect of growers grubbing out more Cox to replace with varieties which are more saleable.
It was discovered in the 19th century and has been used to breed many other varieties, although none seem to quite match the original.
Duskin uses apples in single varieties, of which there are well over two thousand. We believe that Kentish apples are the best for juice and we are very lucky to be in the Garden of England and source them locally. We currently produce 9 individual varieties. Just English apple juice in a bottle.
Many Duskin customers have told us that they are delighted to find that they can buy the variety that granny grew in the garden. It is funny how smells and tastes can take us back to days gone by; the mere taste of the right variety can transport your mind back to picking up windfalls on an autumn afternoon with someone you loved.
Duskin uses apples in single varieties, of which there are well over two thousand – in April 2011 the Brogdale national collection of apples held 2222 varieties. So far, over the years, we have pressed 35 of them (but we think that is still quite impressive). We currently produce 9 – see our varieties page for more information, and maybe take a look at Brogdales website too.
At Duskin we use Kentish apples in our juice. Somerset may have the edge over Kent when it comes to Cider apples, but we believe that Kentish apples are the best for juice and we are very lucky to be able to use them.
The Apple species originated in the east of Europe but as people moved they carried with them their favourite fruit. Apples swept across the continent and finally settled in Kent where they have found a climate they are particularly suited to and have flourished.
Obviously, as time passes humans change everything they touch. In good ways most of the time – they took an already pretty great idea (the apple) and by inspired crossing and careful growing they have developed a huge number of even better varieties.
You may have been told that apples come in “cooking” and “eating”, but grapes don’t and wine doesn’t and there is a whole spectrum of taste out there, individual varieties as individual as you are.
These are the varieties which Duskin has been able to obtain and press in the past. Who knows what may be available next year.
Photo: Cox's Orange Pippin - National Fruit Collection
