Buy Kinnaur Red Delicious Apples
Kinnaur is the last district before Tibet and the most celebrated apple terroir in India. In its high, dry orchards an apple hangs on the tree for 130 to 150 days, weeks longer than any other belt, building deep colour, dense crunchy flesh and a rich, honeyed sweetness. Grown above 9,000 ft, hand-picked at peak ripeness, and shipped to you within days of harvest.
Why Buy Direct from
an Apple Orchard?
Tree to home in less than 7 days – crunchiest apples!
An apple turns its starch into sugar as it ripens in the sun. In Kinnaur, the cold stretches that work across 130 to 150 days on the branch, weeks longer than any other apple belt in India. Store apples are picked early and starchy to survive months in a cold room. Ours finish sweetening at 9,000 ft, and no storage chamber can fake that.
That mealy, cottony apple you have given up on? That is what months of storage do, quietly breaking down the pectin that keeps flesh firm. A harvest-fresh apple snaps when you bite it, and floods with juice.
No wax means the skin goes straight from tree to teeth: natural polyphenols on the outside, pectin on the inside, the soluble fibre your good gut bacteria love. The simplest thing you can do for your digestion is eat a whole, fresh apple.
This is what an apple tasted like before apples became a commodity.
Taste the Difference →
Kinnaur Red Delicious Apples
FAMILYPACK at checkout for ₹400 extra off the juice. Juice ships separately in its own box. Read all about the juice →Tasting Notes
No wax means no scrubbing. A quick rinse under running water and your apple is ready, skin and all, which is where much of the goodness lives.
First bite: A loud, dense crunch, then a flood of juice and a rich, honeyed sweetness. This is the Red Delicious at full power.
Then: A deep, warm apple aroma and a clean finish. The flesh is firm and cream-white, grown dense in Kinnaur’s dry mountain air.
Overall: Sweet, dense, intensely satisfying. The apple that makes Kinnaur famous, eaten fresh instead of after months in storage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Grown by Families.
Picked by Hand.
Our Kinnaur Red Delicious apples come from small orchards tended by farming families high in the Kinnaur valleys of Himachal Pradesh, on land they have cared for over generations. Every apple in your box was picked by hand, at the moment it was ready and not a day before.
High above the plains, where the air is thin and clean and the nights turn sharply cold, the trees push more sugar into the fruit with every degree the temperature drops after sunset.
When you bring home a box of Kinnaur Red Delicious, you support these families directly. This is what an apple tasted like before apples became a commodity.
SĀYB — A Sister Brand of Tons Valley Shop
SĀYB is a brand by Tons Valley Shop dedicated entirely to apples — celebrating the Himalayan apple in its purest form, from fresh fruit to unfiltered juice. SĀYB is our promise to keep apples honest.
Tons Valley Shop has been connecting India with the authentic produce and handmade goods of the Tons Valley since 2020. 2% of our revenue supports community projects through the Kalap Trust.
Learn more about usThis Season’s Harvest.
Straight from the Mountains.
Order a box of Kinnaur Red Delicious today, picked at peak ripeness above 9,000 ft and shipped within days of harvest.
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