My L Exquisite is also a 'straight from the tree apple. Very sweet nice when crisp not much other flavour. Bruises if you touch it. L Superb doesn't often crop well, and wasps like it as it has soft flesh interesting taste. Then comes Lord Lambourne, Sep / Oct first of the Cox type. I get loads from that, and if the skin is spotty it doesn't go deep. We planted Kidd's Orange on a tall-growing rootstock as we read that it would keep well. Almost dug it up because it wasn't fruiting but now it's my favourite. Cox flavour but crisper, good for eating Oct & Nov then loses texture but good flavour stewed. My Cox also took ages before it fruited, not many on that this year. I also have Crispin and Chivers, but much prefer to Kidd's. And for really late stewing after the Bramleys have softened there is a Granny Smith (a commercial grower said'they saw you coming' when we planted it) which isn't like the imported eaters.
I get far more than I can eat but take them to a food hub and to dance clubs and choir for the fund-raising bring-and-buy. We all agree that bought apples don't compare. There was a NZ variety that I used to enjoy late May which you can't get now, I'm told you can't get it in NZ either.