This list reeks of middle-brow hipster ignorance: 1. If you’re judging an apple by its year round availability (as the site creator does), then you’ve basicall

This list reeks of middle-brow hipster ignorance: 1. If you’re judging an apple by its year round availability (as the site creator does), then you’ve basically admitted that you’re only randomly running into apples that are at their best. Some apples are amazing at their peak, but very mediocre when not at their peak. 2. As others have mentioned, there are many variables that influence the texture, taste, and appearance of an apple. If you live far away from where the apples are grown, you will mostly see either the negative side of these variables or the downsides introduced by breeding that allow these apples to get to your market. We don’t even know the geographic base(s) of the author. I really appreciate the author’s effort, but the execution and/or presentation needs a lot of work. I’m sure that a tour of orchards that are far from where the author lives would have him rethinking many of his rankings.