Winesap

There is a variety in our orchards called the winesap, a doubly liquid name that suggests what might be done with this fruit. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

I grabbed a winesap apple, called to the dog and went outside for a good, brisk walk. ❋ Gita M. Smith (2011)

She finishes with a request that a wallpaper be matched with “an apple red, somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan.” ❋ Barry Golson (2006)

You flash a smile that could polish every winesap in Happy Valley. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1994)

"Don't you remember the day I fell out of the winesap tree, and you carried me in, and the next week I tried to climb on top of that hall clock, and knocked it over, and you tried to catch it, and it knocked you over, too?" ❋ George Weston (N/A)

There was a teasing fragrance in the spiced vinegar heating for pickles, a reminder of winesap and rambo in the boiling cider, while the newly opened bottles of grape juice filled the house with the tang of Concord and muscadine. ❋ Unknown (1913)

She rocked like a kingbird on the top twig of the winesap, which was the tallest tree in our orchard, and for once there wasn't a single fly in her ointment, not one, she said so herself, and so did father. ❋ Unknown (1913)

He now has in bearing one thousand trees, besides two thousand not bearing, his orchard being divided about equally between the pippin and winesap varieties. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Roxbury russets, say, with their chewy thick skins, or the aggressively tart winesap. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Apples - old-fashioned ones like winesap and rome beauty and the little mealy green one called a June apple. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I wonder if the orchard is still back of the house," he thought, "and the winesap tree I fell out of. ❋ George Weston (N/A)