Yes thats why i dont grow Celeste. The mulberry taste was in the VdB i have been eating the "Chicago mulberry" i guess they call it, i never new it was a popular mulberry with a name. The mulberry's my brother an i used to eat were the dark types of course !
Once you have one you never forget its taste, so when i taste VdB i instantly said to myself darn i know that taste.
Then it hit me . ; )
Glad to hear the fig was not overpowered by the sweetness but thats just me and how i like a fig.
Well next season i defintely get to taste them , your plant is doing very well and up against shed wih others in a crowd because of these high winds we have been getting lately.