Breba Tasting Meet in Seattle

[gapeysgrub]

A few people in the Seattle area got together on August 1st to taste test 16 of our earliest producing breba fig varieties. I brought a single white madeira and nero 600m that each had to be split 8 ways. It would have been nice to have a larger sample size but we took what we could get. There was no shortage of desert kings and we had a good amount of violette de bordeaux too. I posted a video showing some of the highlights and each person's favs and the overall winners from those we sampled.

This is my first time participating in a tasting like this and it was a lot of fun. I tasted my first melon fig and found I'm not a big fan of those types. I also made the decision to plant my Olympian fig in ground and I'll be making some adjustments to my fig potting mix to provide more aeration and better drainage.

[Sod]

Cool to put faces to names. Thanks for posting.

[rajneeshdelhi]

Thanks for the video and your company Paula. It was a great fun get together with added bonus of meeting fellow figgers.

[WVMJack]

Post your graph on its own so we can get a good look at it please.

[gapeysgrub]

Done

[Mario]

Great work

[gapeysgrub]

Here's the graph of the brebas we tried and how they ranked. Note that the green ischia was mis-labeled. Not sure we figured out what it really was.

[oat]

What is the y-axis. Do you have different scores for 1st place, 2nd place, etc.? Thank!

[gapeysgrub]

Each person submitted their top 5 though a couple did top 3. I assigned 5 points to everyone's #1 fig, 4 points to #2 fig, etc and then added them all up to get the overall top fig. The ones with no bar did not make anyone's top 5 list. There were only 8 of us voting.

[gapeysgrub]

If you want to see what each person's individual top 5 were you can watch the video. Desert King was the only one that was in all 8 people's top 5 list.