Thanks for Posting, I enjoy all your videos. Keep them coming.

Thanks for the review Joe. I only ate a couple off of mine last year. It's loaded this year.
I remember it being one of my favorite.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I didn't catch it if you did mention this, but how old is this tree?

Joe, thanks for sharing the video. It looks like a nice fig and can't wait to compare the flavors of mine with your description. Mine
should produce this year. Mine is BARNISOTTE NOIR and I did not get it from UCD but it could have originated there, I just don't know.

Thanks guys!

This tree was started as a cutting in 2010 and planted at this location in the spring of 2011.

There are many names for this variety depending on which country it is grown in.  Montserrat Pons gives the Catalan name as Bordissot Negra.  He lists the following synonyms: "Brogiotto nero, burdasciotta nera (Italia), bourjassotte noire, barnisotte noire (Franca), burjasote preta (Portugal)".  UC Davis lists this fig as Barnissotte.  Their collection is very old.  Ira Condit described this fig (in the UC Davis collection) as "Bourjassotte Noire (Barnissotte)".  He wrote, "This French variety, long grown in England, was introduced into California in the Chiswick collection as No. 18840. Barnissotte was received in 1926 as No. 69009".  If you google Barnisotte or Brogiotto Nero or the other synonyms you will see that there actually appear to be several similar type figs all under these names.  Giorgio Gallesio, writing in the early 1800's, speculated that Brogiotto Nero is actually the African Fig that Pliny the Elder described in Naturalis Historia in the first century AD.  Unfortunately the full text of Gallesio's description is no longer available online; a password is now required to view the full text on http://www.pomonaitaliana.it/  This variety is very old.  The UC Davis collection seems to have preserved one strain of it that is, unfortunately, badly infected with FMV.

Thanks, Joe, nice review.

It's interesting that your fig has amber pulp but at Wolfskill they are fairly red at at Jon's they are very red.  I wonder if that is because they are caprified.
http://figs4fun.com/Thumbnail_Barnisotte.html

I just started growing this tree recently and now look forward to it even more.

Well, you did it again Joe...really nice video...makes me want a fig right now...I do have a Barnisotte in  1gal. pot(from UC Davis), but it will be a year or maybe two before I'll be eating one of those great looking figs.

I have this variety and it seems like a good one. No figs on my tree yet, but hopefully they will appear soon.

Thanks for the additional comments everyone!

Harvey if you look at these photos of Barnisotte and Brogiotto Nero it shows that this variety can ripen up with a more amber colored interior.

http://figs4fun.com/fpix/FP989-42.jpg
 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vB8pC0ctW3U/T_MptD64qVI/AAAAAAAAAzk/SbdxBqXUH2Q/s1600/brogiotto+Nero2.jpg
 
I'm not sure what causes that to occur.  But I have noticed with several of my figs (Desert King, Conadria, LSU Purple, and Barnisotte) that they will ripen with more amber and less red in the interior than what I expected or see from online photos.  I suspect that it has to do with my soil and climate, though caprification could also have something to do with it.

Thanks, Joe.  When mine starts fruiting (next year, hopefully), I'll try to remember to bag some to exclude wasps to see if I see a difference.

Have you picked any earlier to see if they have red pulp at an earlier stage at your location?

Another great video, Joe.  I really enjoy watching your trees mature with every flick you post!

Thanks Nate.

Harvey here is a post from last year about Barnisotte.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/ucd-barnissotte-6386085?pid=1278384095#post1278384095

It shows a photo of the fruit interior that is more red than what I have been seeing so far this year.  I'm not sure why the Barnisotte interiors have been less red this year.  If I get redder ones later this year I will try to remember to post a photo.

Thanks, Joe.

I happen to have one for sale on eBay right now and describe it as having red pulp, thus the questioning.

Here is a dead ripe Barnisotte fig from the tree in the video.  It is a reddish amber sort of color inside.  The skin is dark purple.  When dead ripe the fruit on this tree is a perfect 10.  It is like candy: rich, sweet, complex, and it lingers.  But the tree grows slowly and does not produce many fruit.  And not all of them ripen properly.  The ones that do make it to perfectly ripe are excellent.  I have a potted Barnisotte that is young but looks to be a clean, strong grower.  I will plant that tree and see how the fruit compares in the future.  Here's the fig from today: