'Sops of Wine' refers to two similar old English apple cultivars that have flesh stained with dark red, looking like bread soaked in wine.[1] One of them is also known as 'Rode Wyn Appel' and 'Sapson'.[1] They have also been known as 'Shropshirevine', 'Strawberry', and 'Washington'.[2]
References
- ^ a b National Fruit Collection (UK), retrieved 8 June 2016
- ^ Beach, S.A.; Booth, N.O.; Taylor, O.M. (1905), "Sops of Wine", The apples of New York, vol. 2, Albany: J. B. Lyon, pp. 203–204