During centuries, Apt was one of the high places of the confectionery. The aptesian tradition of the candied fruits remains today the floret of an universally known art. The secrecies of the confisage are registered on the walls of the copper cauldrons in which generations of craftsmen have creates the recipes of today.
The confisage consists in plunging the fruits, matured with the sun of Provence, in the hot syrups of which the sugar content increases each day, those gradually replace the water contained in the fruits. Thus crystallized, the fruits adorn their beautiful smooth dresses during the operation of glazing. They are called then the "frozen fruits". They are as beautiful and tasteful as those from which Madam de Sévigné and the Pope of Avignon Clément VI were fond of.
Surrounded by the Mounts of Vaucluse and Luberon, Apt is the world capital of the candied fruits. Classified remarkable site of the taste, the town of Apt takes advantage of very favorable climatic conditions for the blooming of the orchards which make the landscape.
You will also be able to discover sites of exception such as Gordes, Roussillon or Bonnieux and well of others...
Historically, the confectionery of Provence proposed the local traditional varieties: apricot, plum, pear, melon and angelica.
More recently, the creativity of the confectioners, combined to the expansion of the market of the fruits, made it possible to enrich the range by varieties to the perfumes of exoticisms: lemons, oranges and clementines in the heart gorged with syrup soft-land-mark, kiwis, pineapple and kumquats, which hot colors and the exquisite perfumes let predict the delight.
The florets of Apt, rare savours that presentations refined out of wood box, basket makings or rich plates raise, join environments of festival naturally, or are quite simply a marvellous gift to be offered or to offer yourself.
The confisage of cherry represents in the area largest tonnage is 10 000 tons. KERRY APTUNION has of a powerful equipment production and a great originality. 30 tons of cherries are crystallized each day in the most modern workshop of the world. The permanent investments of men as well as materiels make it possible for KERRY APTUNION to consolidate its place of N°1 world candied fruits.
Today animated by the dynamics of the leader, KERRY APTUNION develops its knowledge and its know-how with the level of the fruit and the modern products intended for the food industry. The quality of the candied fruits remains amongst other things on a selective quality control thanks to the intervention of specialists profiting from electronics and data-processing components very sophisticated. All these efforts are rewarded by a prestigious statute of French ambassador for the candied fruits in more than 60 countries.
