Cider Digest #0530

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Subject: Cider Digest #530, 11 April 1995 
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Cider Digest #530                                         11 April 1995 

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Contents: 
  Apple Varieties -- how to identify by taste/aroma? (Steven Rezsutek) 

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Subject: Apple Varieties -- how to identify by taste/aroma? 
From: Steven Rezsutek <S.Rezsutek@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov> 
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:59:56 -0400 

 
Being a "new" cider person, there are large gaps in my knowledge.  I'm 
hoping some of you can help fill in a small portion of the void. 

Largely out of simple curiosity, [but also because I've just made room  
in the yard for a couple of semi-dwarfs :-)], I'd like to get some  
info regarding the "varietal traits" of common, and not so common for 
that matter, cider apples.   Now, having had only a smattering of  
commercial ciders, I may be reaching for something here, since I don't  
know that the varieties are all that different tasting to begin with, 
but that aside... 

I have the Proulx and ???? book, as well as another book on fruit 
trees that describes apples, and the nursery catalogs I've asked for 
are starting to come in, but I'm just not finding the descriptions 
to be very inspiring, in the way that descriptions for wine grapes 
tend to be.   However farfetched "cedar, tar and black pepper" may be,  
it is a tiny bit more helpful than "good cider apple". 

So, can any of you help, either with personal descriptions of your  
favorites, or perhaps some course-like list of apple varieties and 
commercial ciders that to a good job of showing off the traits of same? 
[e.g. CiderJack --> Frobs' Orange GravenRusset, with a hint of...] 
Pointers to published info would also be [most] welcome, as I rarely  
turn down the excuse to buy another book. :-) 

Granted, a printed description can never replace the actual experience 
of tasting, so to that end, I'm hoping to find a few sources around the  
DC area for cider apples this fall [last year I just bought pressed cider  
from the farmers' market] in order to run my own "tasting trials".  If  
there's anyone who can recommend any place in particular that stands out,  
I'd appreciate the tip. 
  
Thanks,  

Steve 

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  Steven Rezsutek                       Steven.M.Rezsutek.1@gsfc.nasa.gov 
  Nyma / GSFC Code 735.2                             Vox: +1 301 286 0897 
  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center                    Greenbelt MD  20771 

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