From OrangePippin website
"Sundowner® is the lesser-known sibling of Pink Lady®. Pink Lady® and Sundowner® really are sibling...Read Mores - not only do they share the same parentage - Golden Delicious and Lady Williams - but they were developed at the same time by the same fruit breeder, John Cripps of Western Australia. Pink Lady® and Sundowner® are trademarks - the actual variety names are Cripps Pink and Cripps Red respectively.
Sundowner® is very much a warm-climate apple. That means it needs long hot summers to ripen, but it also has a low-chill requirement so it can tolerate winters where temperatures are rarely below freezing. (Apples originated in mountainous central Asia and need a period of very cold weather each winter as part of their annual growing cycle).
Sundowner® does not have the distinctive pink blush of Pink Lady®, being a more conventional "bi-coloured" red apple. The flavour is less delicate than Pink Lady®, and slightly more distinctive - in this respect it is probably the better apple.
Although primarily an apple for eating fresh, Sundowner® can be used in the kitchen - it keeps its shape when cooked"
From OrangePippin website
"Sundowner® is the lesser-known sibling of Pink Lady®. Pink Lady® and Sundowner® really are sibling...Read More