By the front door, we then gazed on an inviting tray of
Winesaps with a printout touting the many virtues of this traditional apple variety.
As for the apples, they turn up halfway through the book in the story of John's friendship with Gwennie, an Indian apple farmer whose effort at seducing him succeeds only in leaving him with respect for a good
winesap.
People are now interested in some of the antique apples like
winesap and Arkansas black.
Arkansas Black originated in Benton County, Ark., in about 1870 and is speculated to be a seedling of
Winesap. Medium in size, the color is a lively red, deepening on the sun-exposed side to a purplish-red or nearly black.
There are hundreds of produce items, including Fair Trade and organic bananas, Fremont and Clementine tangerines, Golden Nugget Mandarins, purple and green kohlrabi, fennel, purple carrots, red chard, rainbow chard, turnips, rutabagas, honeydews,
Winesap, Jonna Gold, Braeburn, Fuji, and California Arkansas Black apples.
Varieties of apples: More than 50, including Rome Beauty, Pippin, and
Winesap. Wineries in El Dorado County: About one for every variety of apple (eldoradowines.
Still others, like the
Winesap, Sweet Russet, Stripey, and Spice apples are named for their distinctive tastes or color patterns or both.
A man selling
Winesap apples to tourists from his roadside farmstand watches helplessly as two turkeys from his farm upset his tables:
To make her own apple-a-day luncheon feel a bit more Roman-noble, Muriel befriended the young fruit vendors; she collected their proud spotty lore, becoming an expert on ideal characteristics of today's two-cent pippin, tomorrow's two-cent
winesap. If sadness be one's lot, then one became a connoisseur of sadness.
'KINNAIRD'S CHOICE' is a Tennessee apple discovered in 1855 as a possible cross between a '
Winesap' and a 'Limbertwig' Once known as the finest apple grown in middle Tennessee, it is an attractive fruit with a solid-red skin color and yellow flesh, and it's juicy and crisp to taste.
'Paula Reds' are a standard sweet apple, so we decided to mix them with '
Winesap,' a slightly acidic variety.