So I got these recently. Super expensive at $2.99/lb but I had to try em because I’ve never seen them before. They’re big smooth shiny apples with a “profondo rosso” color. I read about them and supposedly the grower nerds have been trying to crossbreed the right types of apples to make this fucking thing right since the 70s.

It’s a softer apple which I dislike, but the juiciness and flavor pretty much make up for it. It’s a really satisfying sweet/sour balanced flavor. The description on the website (all these fancy cultivars have their own websites) describes the flavor as something like a cross between honeycrisp and granny smith (the actual crossbred apples are honeycrisp and MonArk). I would say it’s a little better than that. It seemed to me like the sweetness was stronger than a honeycrisp, and also overpowers the tartness of the whole thing.