Hardy Hartford was only satisfactory here,in 2013,and Danny Delite about the same,it had some fruits that had soured,from taking tooooooo long to ripe due to bad climate.
Nero 600M was also only satisfactory ,with only a quarter of crop getting ripe.
It does not mean they should be judged by this year results,in fact they are delicious figs in proper climate.

Herman, that is absolutely amazing, your climate is just like mine. Except for the fact that we are 4 weeks behind you. Plus, we do not get as much heat as you do.

But, yet your Danny's Delight was fair. Don't understand it. Makes absolutely no sense at all.There would appear to be more things that effect fig quality, then we realize.

The only thing I think of at the moment, that might  have made a difference, is our Danny's Delight is planted next to a large boulder, had a large boulder planted at the bottom of the planting hole, has a large well rotted piece of hardwood in the planting hole, and we placed slit plastic cups over each fruit, about 100 or so. But, the rain must have caught about 50 fruit, before we covered the rest, and that 50 that ripen without the cups, were outstanding.

About 25% of the fruit had started to ripen. Then it started to rain again. So, we then placed slit plastic cups over the other 75 percent, that had starting swelling. It rain for a full day on the Danny's Delight before we got a chance to put on the slit cups. 

After what you reported with your Danny's Delight I'm no longer sure what is going on. But, I will be trying to duplicate everything with any other figs, we plant, that we did with the Danny's Delight.

So, I guess it's as they say, "Go Figer".

Bob @ T. Pine Connecticut zone 5b/6a

I am excited t see you web site Dennis! You have so many interesting varieties.

I'm surprised the Violette de Bordeaux was on the below 8 list. How would you rank it in a better year weather wise?

Tami, in better weather, it would be a 10.

Mi Violette de Bordeaux,did not ripe properly this year,if I wanted to grade it ,it would have been  7 ,for the couple of fruits that ripe in better condition,and a 4 for much of the rest that remained sour even when ripe ,without much flavor.
Of course ,Violette is a 10 in normal years here too,but not every year.

VdB was one of my best this year, but it ripened late so I didn't get a lot of fruits.  I'm just a little bit south of Herman so I guess the touch more heat did it.

My big surprise this year was Alma, it was mediocre for many years and I was thinking of taking it out.  This year, its 10th, it produced big beautiful super-honey-sweet figs.

Scott