Nuvar Golden Hills**

Nuvar Golden Hills: a cheerful yellow apple, round, oblate, large, and ribbed. The apple has understated light-grey lenticel dots sometimes filled with a dark russet. ¶ 

My sample is not the one shown above, though it is similar. It has a splash of brown russet on one side at the top.

There's no hint of a blush on any of these, which is not to say that there might not sometimes be. The peel has a satin finish and is a little waxy.

There is a sweet aroma of cider and peaches.

Taste the tastes

Golden Hills has light yellow flesh, medium coarse, quite sweet, with a satisfying crunch.

The flavors include cane sugar and some floral qualities with a hint of tangerine. 

This is a very pleasant mixture of tastes that persists evenly throughout the apple.

Golden Hills is a modern variety that dates from 1979 in Kent. Pomiferous says it is a self-pollinated Greensleeves. (That is, a Greensleeves x Greensleeves cross.)

Nuvar is, or was, a European fruit-breeding partnership that invited contributions from small growers, and took steps to make its trademarked varieties available to same.

Though Nuvar is not a co-op, its focus on the small grower reminds me a little bit of the American Midwest Apple Improvement Association.