Doyenné du Comice pear

Doyenné du Comice is a large, round Dutch-grown dessert pear, available from September to February. It complements Conference in the pear category, offering customers an additional dessert pear variety. The Greenery supplies Dutch-grown pears, both freshly harvested and from storage, loose or packed.

Growers

The Greenery works with Dutch pear growers at every stage, from variety selection to grading and packing. GLOBALG.A.P. is the minimum standard for cultivation, with GRASP at producer level. For the European market, The Greenery collaborates with BelOrta through FreshAlliance.

Packaging options

Doyenné du Comice pears are available loose or in trays for retail, and in boxes or crates for wholesale. Other packaging options can be agreed for each supply programme.

Characteristics

• Large, round dessert pear
• Intensely sweet, juicy and aromatic, with soft, melting flesh and a refined, rich flavour
• Continues to ripen in the fruit bowl
• Dutch-grown and stored
• Quality class and country of origin in accordance with the EU marketing standard for pears
• GLOBALG.A.P. as the baseline for cultivation, with GRASP at producer level

Availability

Doyenné du Comice is available from September to February (weeks 37–9). It has the shortest season of the three pear varieties, so plan the transition to Conference or Sweet Sensation in good time.