Australian apple growers get the pip over new British apples that are pink now in all but name
A British apple producer creating a homegrown rival to Australia s Pink Lady variety was forced to change the name after a legal challenge
The Reveile apple was called the Flanders Pink until the Australian owners of the Pink Lady objected
When celebrity chef Rick Stein urged people to buy more varied British apples, he singled out the Australian grown Pink Lady for having “little to them”.
But when a top British producer developed its own pink-skinned apple to be a homegrown rival to the Pink Lady it encountered fierce legal resistance, it has emerged.
Stirling Gin owners Cameron and June McCann are disappointed at having to change the name of their new gin. The Pink Lady of Stirling Castle is said to wander around the kirkyards of the historic site, pining for her lost love. With a pink aura and smelling of sweet rose-blossom, legend goes that she was a young noblewoman who died of a broken heart when her lover was killed defending the castle during the English siege of 1304. However, unfortunately for a small Scottish distillery who recently named a batch of gin after her, she also shares her name with a well-known global apple brand.