The Swiss Gourmet apple, also known as the Artlet, is vibrant in skin color. Biting into it felt like a travesty. To break apart those lovely covers into white flesh. Travesty turned into pleasure, as the Arlet has a candy-like sweetness. For lack of a better word I will say dessert-like. If it were a piece of candy or a sauce in a dessert I would not know the difference. In that sense it is almost overpowering. As for flesh it is crisp and juicy. The liquid is not as thick as other apples; it is lighter.

The Swiss gourmet apple is a very good apple, the only problem is that it is too rich and succulent for raw consumption, in my opinion. I think it needs to be paired with something or toned down to be at its full potential.