This is one variety that has both good and bad qualities. Because it has disease resistance it usually produces a decent looking apple. It stores well also. I've found that it tastes like cardboard when first picked but gets more tolerable after storing for a month. I would never describe the flavor as "Rich", "Spicey" or "Full".

My advise to you is to enjoy the tree for what it is. If it is planted wherre passers-by can see it they will all envy the beauty of the tree loaded with good looking fruit. I don't have another variety that has such a high yield of high percentage of "perfect" apples on my low spray program. It is a keeper. I had a few cut up in my breakfast oatmeal today. It's just not the snack apple I would want in the fall.

Enterprise is a very good storage apple. I've learned to keep it on the tree as long a possible and then refrigerate in plastic bags. After about a month, the fruits mellow nicely.

What I don't care for is the rather thick, tough skin.

I agree about the thick skin. Not very desirable, but it's nice to have a DR that harvests late and stores well. I think there may now be some better varieties to fill this bill, however. Adams has a couple that were bred in a French program and I tasted a couple of Crimson Crisp last season that seemed superior to Enterprise. Although it bears mid-season it's supposed to store for 4 months.

I also ate my first CrimsonCrisp this season and it was great. I also just got some scion from the USDA including Co-op 31, which I find is WineCrisp. These both seem to be a bit superior to Enterprise, although I have not yet tasted a WineCrisp. Thanks for the response. Ted

I grow Enterprise and would agree with the above comments. I would add the apples are naturally big and stay pretty hard/firm.

They're good bakers.

I'd agree with the comments above. It's a very disease resistant apple but it really does require cold storage for a while to develop good flavor. When it does so it is a good tasting apple -- not near the best, but not bad, perfectly ok for every day eating -- better in my view than the sugar bombs available in the stores these days. I also grow Williams Pride, a summer apple, and I have to say a fully ripe WP right off the tree tastes really good.

I enjoy enterprise for both eating and baking. I usually pick in early to mid October, when the apples are quite large. They keep wonderfully in my garage fridge for several months.

We just picked some at a local farm. I think they are delicious. I am excited to try them for baking.