Dazzle

A WHOLE LOTTA NOTHING ¶ 

All supermarket apples are good looking, and Dazzle, with its cool red blush decorated with many small lenticel dots, is no exception. ¶ 

The apple is large and blocky, with only a slight taper keeping it from a completely cylindrical profile. The blush mostly covers a yellow peal, and is thinner (and warmer) on the shaded side. ¶ 

Its calyx is open.

Eating Dazzle

Dazzle's tender-crisp, medium-fine-grained light-yellow flesh is remarkably tasteless. Imagine that you've cut a plum in half and steeped it in a gallon of water.

This is what you get when there are nearly no sugar and nearly no acidity. My tasting partner called this a "big nothingburger." A chewy peal, slightly bitter, adds nothing to this variety.

Possibly this is better right off the tree. My Dazzle came from the spring harvest in New Zealand, where it was bred.

Research

The patent for this variety, whose actual name is PreA129, describes Dazzle as a Scired x PremA280 cross. The latter is marketed here as Sweetie, another apple with washed-out flavors.

Both parents also originated in New Zealand. 

Dazzle has, apparently, been a hit in Asia. A chaçon son goût.