Applevariety
Etlins Reinette
Also known as Etlin's Reinette +3
Etlin's Reinette · Ettlin's Reinette · Reinette d'Etlin · Reinette Ettlin's
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · Landenberg estate
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- tender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed faint crimsonBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 62 mmFruit height 54 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern thin russet
Origin & family
Where Etlins Reinette began
Recorded origin
Landenberg estate
Germany
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Etlin's Reinette, Ettlin's Reinette, Reinette d'Etlin, Reinette Ettlin's
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 62 mm
- over colour
- flushed faint crimson
- russet type
- thin russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 54 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, crisp, tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.