How is Arno regarding production? Seems these French bred varieties are basically everything one can get here in Europe (
http://plant-certifie-ail.org/pages/fichesvar.php) reasonably easy without paying ridiculous prices and shipping.
I'm mostly attracted by Thermidrome but they say it's for autumn planting which I can't do, so Arno is next on the list (quite a bit smaller than Thermidrome unfortunately).