Apples have always been coupled with rich foods, the ancients didn’t understand the reason, but the
juice of an apple is very special: the tartness is created by wonderful food acids that aid the
digestion. Hence goose and pork and cheeses especially have always been matched to apples. The
first recorded cookery book, Apicius’s ‘On Cookery’ written around 300BC, writes about the culinary
magic of a dish of apples and wild pork; and the early classic English apple pie always had cheddar
cheese added to the pastry.
And it here where the eve® apple of Nelson-Golden Bay stands alone amongst apples: she is possibly
the most wonderful mate to any cheese ever.
Yet with different cheeses her personality changes as she couples with them on the palate.
With strong aged cheddars, eve®’s tart tongue whips the cheese’s bite into a delicious submission
and creates a creamy balance that enriches the cheddar experience. Yet with soft creamy cheeses
such as Camemberts and Bries eve®’s sweeter side comes forward and she gently adds a spritzy tingle
to the palate.
Eve®’s birth was mid-season on the orchardists calendar. Apple orchardists know that early
blossoming apples are good tree-fresh but can’t be enjoyed for long. But mid-season apples have a
better balance of sweetness and tartness; a balance that means, if courted with gentle harvesting
and cellaring, they are delicious for the whole season. And eve® is a delicious keeper. Her flesh
is trim and taut at the start of the season, with more bite than sweetness. But as the season
develops, her palate personality blossoms and she becomes more voluptuous and fruit driven: still
with a bite, but balanced by a sweeter side.
If apples were wines, eve® would show a wonderful personality: she would start out as a flinty,
firm, Riesling: bitey and delicious as an appetizer and perfect with racey foods; and as the season
develops she would morph marvelously into full-bodied, creamy Chardonnay but with still a bit of
lime-like bite to create balance: and be the perfect ending to a meal or an evening.
"Bon Appletit" from the Heartland Group.
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Apple history
Learn the fascinating history and story of the apple. From its humble beginnings in Kazakstan
thousands of years ago to the love affair the modern world has with apples like eve®. Take a
journey from the Olde World to the New, and see what is awaiting apple lovers all over the planet.
Click here for more on Apple history
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The story of eve
In the Nelson-Golden Bay there is a special place: a place where the sun seems brighter and the
days hotter and the night’s crisper and the sky bluer: this place is called Mariri.
And it is here, in Mariri, a Garden of Eden of the Antipodes, near the end of last century, that an
apple tree produced the most wonderful apple bud.
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story
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What is Applecraft?
The Heartland group has developed their passion into a craft. They call it ‘applecraft’ and its
made up of three disciplines: growing, harvesting and cellaring.
And eve® is their apple-pinnacle: one of the finest apples in the world.
For more information on
Applecraft click here
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