Winter Honeycrisp

Honeycrisp fresh off the tree is popular and prized. How does it fare four months later?

I bought one of these last fall for a comparison tasting that fell through. On Saturday I sliced it open to see what was what.

Many apples left in regular storage (like your refrigerator) eventually develop an "old apple" taste, a kind of thin dusty note.

The Honeycrisp had a whiff of that, but overall I found improved  flavors versus those of the tree-fresh version.

This apple eats like a distant member of the McIntosh family, with somewhat muddled floral, vinous, and berry notes.

Do you like these flavors? If so, you might also like one of the sweeter, simpler Mac relations, such as Spartan or Empire.

There is also also a sweet-cider flavor in this Honeycrisp that is pleasant, and a strong persistent corn-syrup finish.

This sample is still too sweet to be very good, but not mouth-numbingly so.
Note that the Honeycrisps you see in supermarkets time time of year are almost certainly stored under better conditions than mine was.

This is my third bite at this apple. Here are takes one and two.

Honeycrisp notes:

• My fair minded review
• Honeycrisp wannabees
• A prettier Honeycrisp



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