I went to this weekend’s festival at Distillery Lane Ciderworks and was rewarded.
I got my first opportunity to taste the Pixie Crunch apple, and it was AWESOME!!! These apples have an incredible breaking crunchy juicy texture and unique complex flavor that blew me away! My wife tried them too, and said “this is as good as any apple I’ve tried.” High praise coming from such a contrarian! Here are the goodies I picked up:
Front left: Roxbury Russet
Middle left: Zestar
Rear left: Grimes Golden
Middle bottom: English Golden Russet
Second from right: Pixie Crunch
Far right: Blue Pearmain
The owner has finally grown his first proper-looking batch of Blue Pearmains-- an impressive feat for anyone south of the Mason-Dixon. I will sample those later this evening…