36-8 aka Super Alphonse
This mango blows the Alphonse out of the water, larger and better taste with a sweet resin flavor permeating throughout the melting fiberless flesh. Has a large monoembryonic seed and seemed to ripen yellowing green.
-Joep450
I concur. Sugar loaf defines 'the bomb'. Its ripening window allows late eating.
To be fair to Alphonso though, perhaps 36-8 is superior to a Florida grown Alphonso...the jury not back on how India grown would compare head to head.
I can only comment on a single 36-8 from a tasting and several Alphonse and Kesar received from an Indian source this year.
The flavor appears to be different, though similar. The 36-8 tasted more similar to Kesar from my memory, but the fruit were sampled ~3 months apart. The Kesars were purchased at the same time as the Alphonse, but the Alphonse were definitely closer to peak ripeness/ ideal brix.
The 36-8 had much more acid than Alphonse, a very nice balance similar to a ripe kiwi. The aroma of 36-8 is intense and spicy, definitely made a strong case for the Pine-free strong spice category. Having limited samples of all three, 36-8 is certainly the one I would like to try again, but it is currently being evaluated for commercial release(read: unavailable), and is monoembryonic.