Blood Peach

Blood Peach, also known as Vineyard Peach, looks like an ordinary peach from the outside, but cut into it and you'll find dazzling red flesh. Harvest from mid August.

The origin in the Vineyard

The story of the blood peach started over 250 years ago in the Coteaux du Lyonnais in France. At that time, the wine growers would plant a peach tree in the middle of their vineyards. The peach trees were highly sensitive to fungus and were therefore the protectors of their vines against the parasitic fungus.

As soon as the first signs appeared on these trees, the alarm was raised and the vines were saved. These specific peach trees produced a small, red and downy fruit. These peaches started to defend themselves and created more antioxidants. This resulted in the beautiful red colored flesh. That’s why these peaches got the names ‘vineyard peach’, ‘peche de vigne’ or even ‘blood peach’.

By selecting the most beautiful fruits, a complete new peach species was born. The Vineyard peach as we know it today has characteristic red colored flesh, is very juicy, very sweet and above all super aromatic.

Plant in full sun, ideally in a border next to a south or west facing wall, but this variety also does well as a freestanding tree in warmer parts of the country.
Self fertile - you'll get a good crop from just one tree. On it's own roots (typical for this variety).