APPLE MATURING SCHEDULE
Click here to see the general apple ripening schedule.

For more information call:
(505) 384-4467

Apple Store & Festival

For over 35 years Manzano Mountain Retreat has been a working apple ranch producing over 4,000 bushels of apples and 3,000 gallons of unbelievably delicious cider annually.

Manzano Mountain Retreat is one of New Mexico's largest apple producer with over 34 varieties offering the State's largest variety of apples. Due to apple varieties ripening at different times, our apples are generally available from mid-September through mid-November. The fertile soil and rapid-changing daily temperatures make Manzano Mountain Retreat's apples some of the best tasting apples found anywhere in the world!

APPLE STORE
Manzano Mountain Retreat operates a country store, which is usually open from September through November, and offers not only apples and cider but also other local products like pumpkins, watermelon, cantaloupe and sweet corn when in season.

For 2007, the apple store will be opening on Thursday, September 27 and will be open each week 9am until 5pm from Thursday – Sunday (closed Monday-Wednesday).

MANZANO MOUNTAIN CIDER
The blended Manzano Mountain Cider is the best apple cider you'll ever taste. MMR has recently installed Flash Pasteurizing equipment. Flash Pasteurizing uses a new technology to instantly raise the temperature of cider to 160 degrees, which destroys all unwanted, and potentially harmful germs, then rapidly cools the cider to 39 degrees all in less than 10 seconds. This method provides a safe product while not altering the taste one bit. Manzano Mountain Retreat cider making equipment is annually inspected and certified safe by the New Mexico Department of Health.