Description
- Harvest: Late
- Description: Small sized blocky shaped fruit
- Skin: Dark red flush with a grey russet lace
- Flesh: Creamy white
- Vigour: V2
- Flowering Group: 2
- Pollination: Vista Bella, Devonshire Quarrenden, Lord Lambourne, Alexander, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Granny Smith, Jonathan, Mc Intosh, Sturmer, Tydeman’s Early Worcester, Polka and Waltz
- Taste: Striking in appearance, dark red flush with a grey russet lace. Fruits have fine, crisp, white flesh quickly turning yellow in air, and with a sweet fennel and aniseed flavour
- Uses: Eating and cider
- Background: Originating in Anjou, France 1628 (1 of the 7 principle apples grown at Versailles)