The Fruit Tasting Report

Only the highlights are presented here...so read about the all-time Top Favorites & Top Scores by Fruit Type — then download the Fruit Tasting Report.pdf — or contact our Wholesale Department for more information.

For the past several years, Dave Wilson Nursery has conducted formal fruit tastings, featuring over 1000 samples of fruit. Since 1994, all the tastings have been conducted “in the blind”, with the tasters not knowing the variety names until after the evaluation.

The samples for each tasting are selected based on their proximity to peak maturity on the date of the tasting. Several fruit tastings have been conducted at locations throughout California and the panel has become quite diverse, including members of the California Rare Fruit Growers, media representatives, academia and retail nursery professionals.

The primary objective for the fruit tastings and the fruit tasting report is to provide retail nursery personnel the knowledge and experience of tree-ripe home orchard fruit in order to encourage the sale and planting of the consistently best-tasting fruit varieties. Dave Wilson Nursery uses the results of the tastings as a systematic means of evaluating new varieties and re-evaluating current selections for the home garden inventory.