Wine
- From
- Delaware
- Flesh quality
- Crisp, but tender and juicy. Rich and sprightly vinous, acid.
- Flesh color
- yellow-white
- Skin color
- red, yellow striped
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- globular, oblate
- Keeping quality
- Keeps until March or April
- General quality
- In 1849 the Committee on Fruit for the N. Y. State Agricultural Society said,"The Wine apple is richly entitled to a place on our list, for it is not only beautiful in appearance but it is hardy, productive and of a flavor which is peculiarly agreeable to most persons... in fact we could not recommend to our agricultural population a more useful fruit."
- Uses
- market, dessert, cider, kitchen
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Fine Winter
- Hays
- Hays Apple
- Hays Wine
- Hays Winter
- Hays Winter Wine
- Hollow Crown Pearmain
- Large Winter Red
- Pennsylvania Redstreak
- Pennsylvania Red Streak
- Wine Apple
- Winter Wine
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 373.