Apples :: Golden Russet

 

Late Season • Sweet

Ripens

Late September - Early October

Characteristics

Crisp, highly flavored, fine-textured, yellow flesh makes very sugary juice. Golden bronze with a coppery orange cheek; heavily splotched with light brown russet. The Golden Russet apples are high in both sugar, acid and tannins, which make them a good pair with almost any apple for eating, cooking, cider or drying. The Golden Russet was prized as the "champagne" of old-time cider apples. 

History

The Golden Russet apple declined in marketability in the twentieth century when the alluring shininess and color of red apples gained popularity. 

The Golden Russet apple was known about in the 1700s and most likely sprang from New York. Some have speculated that it may descend from the English russet apple. Others allude to it having almost perfect resemblance to the roxbury russet. Whichever its lineage, little is known about its origin. 

Parentage: Unknown.

Storage: Keeps 3+ months.

Notes: We have a few customers that wait for this all season each year! Great example of a unique heirloom apple. Some years russeting is more than others.