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Fall Wine
type: Cider
synonyms: Hawer, House, Musk Spice, Ohio Wine, Sweet Wine, Wine of Cole
identification: Medium size. Round. The base colour is yellow, marbled with red over which are sometimes faint stripes. Lenticels are prominent and red-brown. Apples bruise easily.
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, tender and sweet. Vinous flavour.
origins: Originated in the early 1800s as a seedling tree in the gardens of Judge Jonathan Buel, president of the Albany Horticultural Society in Albany, New York (U.S.A.) and spread across most of the eastern U.S.A in the 1830s onward. Listed extensively by A.J. Downing in the 1854 edition of "The Horticulturist." In the 1884 revision of A.J. Downing's "The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America" Charles Downing describes it as "Origin unknown, probably an old Eastern fruit called 'Wine' but not now much cultivated on account of the fruit being defective. In the rich Western soils it thrives admirably, producing fine fruit, yet in a few localities they complain of it being knurly." It fell out of favour in the early 1900s and was deemed lost until the 1950s when fruit explorer Fred Ashworth of Heuvelton, New York, found an old tree in Virginia that fit the description and was still being harvested for cider making annually.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading. Precocious. Produces good crops, but tends to do so every other year.
cold storage: Does not store well.
harvest: Ripens for harvest in the fourth period. Apples drop readily from the tree once ripe, sometimes even earlier.
ploidism: Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
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