The Honeycrisps were at my neighborhood farm market last Saturday; I have some on hand right now. Also some Macintoshes. Not many; I was more interested in the peaches, which seem to be having a good long season this year.
My alltime favorite apple is a pure Winesap (not Stayman Winesap, though they aren’t bad, but the purebred). Delicious. They’re thin-skinned and bruise easily, though, which makes them repugnant to wholesalers and hard to find even at farmers’ markets.
Ummmmm, indeed. You can’t swing a dead cat in NY and not hit an orchard. My favorite are the Macintosh apples, which have the perfect mix of sweet and tart.
I always look forward to the apple festivals at the various orchards. Apple pie, cider, pumpkin patches and cider donuts ::drool::
Macintosh are one of the early ones, so you should have them now.
Ahhhh!
Dang Yankees.
Down here in the sweaty south, where you needed oxygen to make it through my daughter’s soccer practice tonight, it will still be 6-8 weeks before nice fall stuff like tasty fall apples.
OTOH, we’ll have nice spring days and flowers in early March. And I don’t own or know what a snow shovel looks like.
Man, I could still do with a crisp fall day in September. Or October…
Gravensteins are the big deal here. And I totally understand why. They are just perfectly delicious apples. Sweet, tart, crisp… Yum!
I would love to try a purebred Winesap! The Stayman’s don’t travel well either, thus I have to have travelers get them for me. I’ll have to see if they can get me a purebred this year.
psycat90 You are right about the Gravenstein’s, those are wonderful apples as well.
I’m disappointed in that I can’t find a Jonathan apple for sale. They don’t grow Fuji locally either. I checked out how big the last of the McIntosh on the tree were. they have a diameter of 3.5 inches. That’s big and it’s only the last hanger-ons that got this big.
I checked our local orchard and they told me that they can’t open their store this season because of the severe drought in this area. It ruined their peaches a few months ago and the apples, too, could not grow, so no local apples for us this year 
I bought a peck at the local farmer’s market Saturday and made some pies from Jonathan apples! (I believe I saw some Fuji, but I was in a hurry.) Here in two weeks I’ll have such a selection I won’t know what to choose.
I think I’ll peel up a few of those Jonathan’s now and have a snack. I’ll also have to pull out my chart and see how well they store, this batch was very good, and would make for great holiday pie.
Cortland are firmer and tart, so they’re good for pies and caramel apples. I like the tart apples contrasting with the caramel. I wanted Jonathon apples for eating raw.
I just spotted Honey Crisps for the first time in my area today. Yay! They’re my favorite apple. The rest of the year, I mostly eat Pink Lady apples or occasionally Fujis, but we don’t get a whole lot of varieties. I’ve never seen Winesaps.