Buy Valencia mandarins online: real sweetness, no tricks
Buying Valencia mandarins directly from the grower changes the game entirely. You notice it with the first segment: that moment when the sweetness seems impossible without someone having added something. CitrusRicus mandarins are harvested to order — nobody touches them until you place your order. No cold storage. No post-harvest treatment. From the tree to your box on the same day.
The supermarket mandarin vs. the real thing
The mandarin you find at the supermarket is harvested weeks too early, passes through degreening chambers with ethylene to force the orange colour, is treated with fungicides and imazalil, then waxed to shine under the fluorescent lights. It looks like a mandarin. It doesn't taste like one.
Our Valencian mandarins ripen on the tree until they reach between 12 and 16 degrees Brix of natural sugar — depending on the variety and the point in the season. That sweetness isn't manufactured in an industrial unit. It's built with sunshine, with time, and with soil that has been doing the same thing for generations.
Clemenules, Clemenvilla, Orri: each variety in its moment
The mandarin season starts in October with the Clemenules — seedless, easy to peel, with a perfect balance of sweet and tart. Next come the Clemenvilla, more intense and juicy. And we close with the Orri and Tango, the late varieties that stay on the tree until April, maintaining a texture and flavour that other varieties lost weeks ago.
At CitrusRicus we don't choose the variety for logistical convenience. The field calendar decides. When one variety ends, the next takes over. If there's no good mandarin available, there's no mandarin. As simple as that.
Buying direct: fewer middlemen, more freshness
When you buy mandarins directly from the grower, you eliminate the chain that turns excellent fruit into mediocre fruit. Fewer days between tree and table. Fewer hands handling it. Fewer treatments to survive a journey it shouldn't be making. And a fairer price for the person who actually grows the fruit.
Our fresh Valencia mandarins travel by refrigerated express to anywhere in Spain within 24 hours and to the rest of Europe in 3–6 working days. No middlemen. No wax. No cold storage. With the guarantee: replacement or refund if anything falls short of your expectations.
