With the world’s cleanest air – that’s not an idle boast, that’s a fact – Tasmania’s the perfect place to grow naturally brilliant apples and pears.

Tasmania’s first apple trees were planted by Captain Bligh on Bruny Island in the 1700s.

Before Europeans settled in Tasmania, Tasmanian Aborigines made their own cider from the fermented sap of a special gum tree variety.

The Huon region is still Tasmania’s biggest apple grower – somewhere around 80% of apples grown in the state hail from there.