Heirloom Apple Varieties
Orleans Reinette
According to Zeke Goodband, our former orchard manager, this is, “One of the most handsome apples on the planet.” Grown in France for hundreds of years, it has a flattened shape with a russeted, rosy cheek. It has a combination of citrus and nutty flavors, and makes for a good cooking apple as well as for eating out of hand. Yellow, fine textured flesh. The famous English food writer, Edward Bunyard, enjoyed his Orleans Reinettes with port wine. Later harvest variety, usually mid-October.
