This is a pint of Montmorency or Balaton cherries, the perfect pie cherries, tart and delicious.
Keep cool.
Must be why they're pushing you so hard to make it a pie; eaten raw (my preferred cherry consumption method) they are sadly bereft of flavor and therefore entirely too expensive.
I love cherries. But these advertised (and labeled on the container) as sweet, they're not very sweet. Nor were the ones I got very flavorful. They were tart, though. I'm just disappointed. I recently got Ranier branded organic cherries at Whole Foods that were extraordinary.
So the ones I got are okay, but not great.
These are a lot smaller than your grocery-bought cherries, with a burst of tart and a nice touch of just the right amount of sweetness with every bite.
Bill and Andrea at Champlain Orchards are committed to ecological practices and are Eco-Apple certified. Due to the challenges of our Northeast climate, organic certification of fruit is incredibly difficult. Their cherries are never sprayed; only in the flowering stage are the trees treated using Integrated Pest Management to cut down on the risk of scab. No chemical pesticides are used on the orchards.
