Here apples are D.O.P. (Denominazione di origine protetta, protected area of denomination). They are and have been very serious business: wherever you look, if it is not a vineyeard, there is an orchard after another. And beautiful trees these are, contorted, suffering, powerfully beautiful:
But these shapes are not by chance:
As you see, these trees are just now beginning to spring back to life: so, should you not start wondering about where the apples you buy now in the supermarket come from 
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Apples (not yet well ripened) are harvested in september and october and then stored in a large refrigerator (4°C).
In this they are sold throughout all the year.
I lived in Trento for two years and I remember the beautiful cycle lane between the apple-tree fields and mountains.
/maybe it's better if I write in italian ;-)
grazie per le info Sdonk ;-)
and your English is just fine - plus, who are we to say, anyway!
Errata corrige
I gradi non sono 4 ma meno di 4 (circa 0-1).
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