These varieties all have reputations as good keepers. Some are said to improve with age.

Rather than periodically revise my reviews of these fruits ("two months out and still crispy!"), here is how this experiment has fared.
What an apple, what suavity of aroma. Its initial Madeira-like mellowness of flavour overlies a deeper honeyed nuttiness, crisply sweet not sugar sweet, but the succulence of a well devilled marrow bone. Surely no apple of greater distinction or more perfect balance can ever have been raised anywhere on earth.