Applevariety
Winesap
Also known as American Wine Sop +15
American Wine Sop · American Wine-Sop · American Winesop · Banana · Henrick's Sweet · Holland's Red Winter · Pot Pie Apple · Potpie Apple · Red Sweet Wine Sop · Royal Red · Royal Red of Kentucky · Texan Red · Wine Sap · Wine Sop · Winesop · Winter Winesap
A cooking and dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · U.S.A.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped dull redSkin texture bloom, thick, smoothBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 61-78 mmFruit height 53-69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, sometimes on bodyRusset pattern russet dots, some russet at base
Origin & family
Where Winesap began
Recorded origin
U.S.A.
United States
On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Winesap
4189419041914192
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Dermen Winesap
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- synonyms
- American Wine Sop, American Wine-Sop, American Winesop, Banana, Henrick's Sweet, Holland's Red Winter, Pot Pie Apple, Potpie Apple, Red Sweet Wine Sop, Royal Red, Royal Red of Kentucky, Texan Red, Wine Sap, Wine Sop, Winesop, Winter Winesap
- mother to
- Arkansas Mareda McLiver's Winesap Shenandoah
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 61-78 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped dull red
- russet type
- russet dots, some russet at base
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 53-69 mm
- skin texture
- bloom, thick, smooth
- flesh texture
- firm, tender, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Winesap apple, cross-sectioned. Synonyms: American Wine Sop, American Wine-Sop, American Winesop, Banana, Henrick's Sweet, Holland's Red Winter