The Gravenstein Apple is an heirloom apple, introduced hundreds of years ago, that has reached some mainstream appeal to stories of its growing in California and cult status. Despite the association with California, I was able to get some Red Gravensteins at a Wisconsin Farmer’s Market. This ‘Red’ variety is basically a version of the…

The Autumn Glory aesthetically is a typical apple. Nothing exciting there… The flavor, though…. The flavor has a punch of tangy sweet in the beginning. It fades a way for a few moments then finishes with a tart-tangy-ish note that lingers in your mouth. It really lingers. That’s what makes this apple special. Asides from…

I’ll cut my ‘Honeycrisp’ knock-off rant down to a minimum. It’s self-evident in the name—the EverCrisp is a child of the Honeycrisp. Let’s move on with our lives and discuss the qualities of the EverCrisp apple and not its lineage. It’s crispy. Who knew!? But it really is. The EverCrisp is tiny, crunch, sweet, and…

The SugarBee apple is a child of the Honeycrisp apple. Like the Juici apple, it’s trying to be…the perfect apple or Honeycrisp 2.0. I’m not going to say I’m getting tired of this completely, because the results have been generally delicious. The SugarBee is no exception. The SugarBee apple has a light, airy sweetness. An…

The Juici apple is another attempt by the Human race to engineer the perfect dessert apple. Or something like that. It’s like after the Honeycrisp came into existence everyone’s been trying to improve on it and making basically slight variations of the same concept. An apple that is: crispy, juicy, and sweet. That second quality…

The King David apples that I had a chance to try were the last of their type at my grocery store. I could tell they were on the older side, and yet, I had to try them anyway. They were a new apple to me so I had to have them! They were on the…

In this era, even apples have websites. The RubyFrost apple is another apple that has a marketing website dedicated to it. It really doesn’t mean much, all things considered. Everything has a marketing website nowadays—especially apples with cutesy names and pretty skin. It really doesn’t mean that much when it comes to the quality of…

The SnapDragon apple is a richly red fruit. It’s really, really red. I mean, that’s clear, I hope, from the pictures of it. Texture, something not clear from pictures is this: the SnapDragon is firm and stable. I could determine that just by touch. I thought, upon picking it up, the SnapDragon is an apt…