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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Mark Lee wrote:
> I ran across this description by someone else this morning for
> Ashmead's Kernel "this apple explodes with a champagne-sherbet flavor
> infused with orange blossom".

I love Ashmeads Kernal, and go well out of my way every year to buy them
from the only local grower. But it tastes like an apple. A delicious,
very sweet, very tart apple with a nice apple aroma, but it's apple.
I've enver noticed "orange blossom" or "champagne" overtones.

Ginda
eastern MA, zone 6