Apple Taste Tests

On a mission to determine best apples for fresh eating available in Alabama. Here's the listing in order of preference so far.

1. Jazz - Very pretty and crisp bicolor apple with perfect mix of sweet and sour. Complex flavor.
2. Honescrisp - Very crisp (if fresh or maybe there's different sports), juicy, and complex sweet and tart flavor. Fairly attractive. Hit or miss with this one though. But a good one is REALLY good.
3. Braeburn - Great apple. As crisp as granny smith and almost as tart but extra interesting flavor. Not the prettiest outside appearance though, not that this matters, but it probably kept me from trying it before all these years.
4. Granny Smith - Very pretty North Carolina apple. Historically this was my favorite apple and is the apple I compare all other apples to, usually. It's very tart, very crisp, very attractive bright green apple
5. Fuji - Ok in appearance. Firm, tart, sweet. Overall a very good apple.
6. Gala- Not a beautiful apple. Crisp, complex and interesting flavor though not acidic enough for me.
7. Arkansas Black - An apple grown in Alabama. Unusually dark and attractive apple. Somewhat interesting flavor but not tart enough for my taste.
8. Golden Delicious - Yellow apple with spots. Crisp and sweet with a little tang. Simple but good. Most widely grown apple in Alabama.
9. Ambrosia - Very pretty and crisp with decent flavor. Mostly just sweet and not sour but slight extra flavor (floral?).
10. Pinata - Crisp fairly attractive bicolor apple with a slight pineapple flavor (or non-apple flavor). Very sweet.
11. Cumberland Spur - Alabama apple. Not very pretty. Crisp. Not terribly remarkable but wasn't comparing alonside Granny Smith like I usually do.
12. Pink Lady - Neat appearance. Tasted this a while back and perhaps should retry, but flavor seemed bland.
13. Empire - NY apple. Skin smells lovely. Soft. Solid red though not terribly dark exterior. OK flavor. Supposedly best eaten fresh off tree (which we didn't do)
14. Jonagold - Very pretty bicolor apple but flavor is bland like Red Delicious.
15. Red Delicous - Very thick skin, mealy, bland, purely sweet with no acidity. My least favorite apple. Only redeeming quality is it's very attractive color.

Soon to be tasted:

1. Cortland - NY apple. Skin smells great. Soft. Not sure of flavor yet. Supposedly best eaten fresh off tree (which isn't an option in Alabama, that I'm aware of)