APPEARANCE Rating: 




Notably shiny and smooth, dark brilliant purple, no bloom, inside is a watery yellow
AROMA Rating: 




Mild grassy smell
TEXTURE Rating: 




Juicy and tender
TASTE Rating: 




Mild and sweet, flavor is not very noticeable, grassy notes and a bitter, shocking peel. The flesh is very middle-of-the-road, not good not bad
OVERALL Overall Rating: 




This is definitely one of the prettiest pluots to look at and smoothest to touch but the inside was so ho hum I was bored and barely finished the review.
FRUIT
Pluot
VARIETY
King Kong
PEAK
May – Sept
ORIGIN
California
GROWN
California
PURCHASED
Farmer’s Market
NOTES
Pluots are a hybrid between plums and apricots with the majority being plum (often a ratio of 75%/25%). Technically speaking, “pluot” is a registered trademark of Zaiger’s Genetics.