Shenandoah *

What a handsome apple!

Mine is at the smaller end of large. It's somewhat oblate with a classical shape and a streaky red blush. ¶ 

The dark streaks are a deep red and there are crackles of russet spilling over the stem well and running down the sides.

The lenticel dots are nearly impossible to see.

Let's see how this American variety fares when grown in English apple country.

O Shenandoah

Shenandoah inside has crisp breaking fine-grained white flesh, really a great crunch. 

It has pleasant but weak flavors, sightly floral and spicy with a bit of lychee fruitiness.

The Shenandoah River is in West Virginia and Virginia. For the story behind this apple, we go straight to next door to the source, to North Carolina. 

There, Horse Creek Farm praises this "very fine, but little known apple" developed in the late 1940s by George Oberle at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. 

It is a Winesap x Opalescent cross.