Our products

Coteaux Nantais, the pleasure of fruit with no compromise on quality.

CÔTEAUX NANTAIS offers a wide range of products, from fresh fruit to grocery lines, in a great variety of formats, with particular attention to recipes and production methods, so that the strength and flavour of the fruit come through in every preparation.

Our recipes are dreamt up a stone’s throw from our orchards and our fruit packing station. The taste and colours of the fruit, carefully chosen ingredients: CÔTEAUX NANTAIS chooses what really matters, and keeps it simple.

By the numbers

Key figures

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million products made every year
80%

of the fruit that tops up our own orchards’ harvest is sourced in France
100%

of the apples, pears, kiwis and quinces from our orchards are put to use

The range

From orchard to plate, we control every step

On one side, fresh fruit to bite into; on the other, an organic grocery range: purées, compotes, jams and jellies, still or sparkling fruit juices, and cider vinegars.

At CÔTEAUX NANTAIS, everything is controlled from start to finish: we grow our orchards biodynamically, we sort and pack the fruit at our own packing station, then process it in our own factory. Some of the fruit comes from our orchards, the rest from partner orchards that are organic too.

With CÔTEAUX NANTAIS, you rediscover the true taste of fruit.

The orchard

105 hectares of orchards grown biodynamically, complemented by partner orchards.
The packing station

In Vertou, the fruit is sorted, graded and packed with care.
The factory

In Remouillé, 7,000 m² devoted to processing: purées, compotes, jams, juices, ciders and vinegars.
Your plate

Short recipes, real flavour, and an organic grocery range of quality at a fair price.

Our varieties

Our apples have lovely names!

More than 40 varieties of apple are grown in the CÔTEAUX NANTAIS orchards. Here are a few: Délis d’Or, Opale, Reinette des Côteaux, Tentation and Topaz…

Délis d’Or
Opale
Reinette des Côteaux
Tentation
Topaz

How to enjoy them?

Bite into them, cook with them or bake with them, depending on your mood, the season and the qualities of each variety!

And what do they taste like?

To preserve the flavour of our apples and let them give their best, we choose varieties according to the season.

Tangy, crunchy, mellow, juicy, sweet or tender: each one has its own character.

Variety calendar

An apple for every season

Early, mid-season or late: all year round, every variety has its moment. Find out about their flavour and their favourite use, for eating raw, for cooking or for baking. And 100% of our fruit is grown biodynamically.

Wheel-shaped variety calendar showing the apple varieties grown by Côteaux Nantais, grouped into early (August to October), mid-season (November to January) and late (February to June), with a pause in July. Picked from August to November, 100% biodynamic. The poster text is in French. — View full size

Fresh fruit

Class I fruit, for eating raw, straight from our biodynamic orchards. We offer a wide variety of apples, chosen for their flavour and texture.

Three jars of compote, apple-pear, apple-strawberry and apple-peach, on a wooden board

Compotes, fruit purées and jams

CÔTEAUX NANTAIS favours a blend of varieties and works with whole fruit, cooked slowly to preserve flavour, texture and aroma.

Fruit purées

Organic fruit picked at full ripeness, with no added sugar, additives or preservatives.
Compotes

Organic fruit gently cooked in short, indulgent recipes.
Jams and jellies

65% fruit, organic cane sugar and carefully controlled cooking to preserve the aromas and give a generous texture.

Juices

Bottles of juice and cider on a wooden table, surrounded by apples

Pure fruit juice

Made from second-class apples, 100% pressed fruit, with no added sugar. Around fifteen flavours, from the most classic to the most original, combining apple with pineapple, grapefruit, ginger, mango and even lychee!
Nectars

Fruit purées with a touch of cane sugar and water for a smooth, indulgent, velvety texture. Here, strawberries and apricots, organic of course, really shine.
Sparkling fruit juices

100% pressed fruit, apple-based, alcohol-free with no added sugar. Fresh and fizzy, for adults and children alike! Many flavours are in the catalogue: apple-blackcurrant, apple-passion fruit, apple-raspberry, apple-blueberry and more.
Ciders

Made from carefully selected organic apples, our ciders undergo a slow natural fermentation that develops their aromas and a gentle sparkle. Dry or sweet, there is a cider for everyone.

Cider vinegars

Made from carefully selected organic apples, partly from our own orchards, our unpasteurised cider vinegars owe their distinctive flavour to know-how controlled from start to finish, from the orchard to the vat.

It all begins with a cider of character. Then acetic fermentation lets the vinegar mother slowly turn the alcohol into vinegar. A skilled process, with no shortcuts and no pasteurisation: it is this patience, and the watchful eye of our teams, that gives the apples the chance to release all their aromas.

Some are Demeter-certified. Among the original flavours we offer: shallot and ginger-turmeric.

Bottles of plain, shallot and ginger-turmeric cider vinegar

The lab

In the CÔTEAUX NANTAIS kitchen, recipes “even better than home-made”

CÔTEAUX NANTAIS has a laboratory dedicated to creating its recipes. Here we imagine, explore and test new flavours and blends, to the delight of your taste buds.

Step 01

The idea

At the origin of a new recipe, sometimes an idea, sometimes the flavour of a fruit that particularly charms us, sometimes the culinary trends of the moment.
Step 02

The ingredients

Next comes the search for quality ingredients, either from our long-standing partners or from new orchards – always organic – that will allow us to run our tests and perfect a recipe.
Step 03

The standards

Pleasure of taste, quality of products, demanding processes and respect for living things shape every stage and every new creation.