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2014 Edition
For over 20 years Dave Wilson Nursery has conducted formal fruit tastings, compiling over 43,000 individual variety ratings while evaluating over 1,700 fruit samples. The primary objectives of the tastings and the report are to 1) provide retail nursery personnel and home orchardists with knowledge of the best tree-ripe home orchard fruit, and 2) afford DWN a systematic means of evaluating new varieties.
Fruit Tasting Report 2014
Cover: Overview, Highlights for 2013 & 2014
Pages 2-3: Consistently High-Scoring Varieties, Top Scores by Fruit Type
Pages 4-5: Top Scores By Year, 1993-2014
Pages 6-7: Harvest Date Chart of Top Varieties, Top 20, Discussion
Page 8: Scoring System, Master Fruit Tasters
Several fruit tastings have been conducted at locations around California and the cumulative panel has become quite diverse, including members of the California Rare Fruit Growers, media representatives and academia in addition to retail nursery professionals.
Page 8 of the Fruit Tasting Report lists the DWN Master Fruit Tasters, folks who have served on the panel at two or more formal tastings, in two or more different fruit seasons.