The Granny Smith apple. A staple apple: one of the major flavor profiles. For tartness it is the baseline. It is the tart apple. Along with the tart flavor that it is known for, it has crisp white flesh. It is hard to review the Granny Smith: its purpose and ethos is well known. It…
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The Kiku apple has great color and shape: it is both plump and bright red. Quite photogenic. As for taste it is as bold as its color. Super tart, verging on unbearable. The first note of flavor before that tartness is a sweetness, and that note returns after the blast of tart. The Kiku is full of…
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The Opal apple is definitely crunchy. The skin broke off perfectly, and the flesh had just enough juice to be succulent but not so much as to be watery. The taste is where it gets interesting: it has sweet notes in the beginning, but it transforms into a sort of spicy tang. Neither of these flavors…
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The first thing I noticed when biting into the Piñata apple was that it had tough flesh. The second was that it tasted very fruity and sweet. It starts off with a zesty sweetness then transforms into a acidic tang. The flavor is hard to pin down: it has elements of a tropical sweetness, a…
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The Aurora apple’s flesh is a pale yellow, much paler than the pictures show. Very unassuming. The flavor was just like that. It started off barely sweet, then rose in flavor the longer I chewed. In general the flavor was weak, but their were some bites that had hints of tang. The flesh was pliable, crunchy to bite into but…
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The first bite of the Green Dragon apple was intense. It was like riding a tropical flavored roller coaster. The skin was flavorful and chewy by itself, but the flesh was something else. I thought it tasted like a Fuji, or some other tropical-sweet apple at first. That thought did not last long as waves of guava-like…
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I felt a rush of excitement looking at the Calville Blanc. It looks bizarre and unique, not a normal style apple. The ridges are so different from other apples with their smooth, oblong shape. In taste it is not normal either. It has a lemon-like sweetness in the front, with a similar styled acidity following it.…
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True to its name, the Pink Lady apple is quite pink in skin tone. The flesh is hard and crispy, with a sufficient amount of juice. I felt the skin had a sweeter flavor than the juice. Overall I would call it tangy, but it was not a strong flavor. I would almost call it bland. It…
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The Braeburn apple has skin with hues that mix between green and red. The flesh is tough and crispy, while the skin is on the more delicate side. Very juicy, each bite brought more and more out of the flesh. The taste is powerful. Rich, pure tang with acidic undertones. Some bites had my tongue burning just…
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The first wave of flavor of the Ida Red is a intense mixture of strawberries and banana. Following that is a tangy tart. At one point in the apple I tasted such strong amounts of banana it felt like I was eating one. The flesh is soft and pliable and the skin is not crunchy.…
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