Commercial potential for American persimmons?

Jerry Lehman told me, years ago, that year-in/year-out, at his orchard and at IN NGA taste-tests at the Jim Claypool orchard, Early Golden was invariably chosen as the best-flavored persimmon.
Is that still the case, with all the newer selections that have been made from breedings made by Jerry, Don Compton, David LaVergne, Cliff England, etc. - and made available in the last few years? IDK.

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