Best-Tasting Tomatoes: 56 Heirloom Tomatoes Rated Excellent for Flavor
Heirloom Tomatoes Rated as Having Excellent Flavor
From
The Heirloom Tomato, by Amy Goldman
Currants & Cherries
- Black Cherry: Fruity and well-balanced. CR Lawn of Fedco Seeds gives this one the nod: “Yum!”
- Wild Sweetie: Super-sweet
- Matt’s Wild Cherry
- Sara’s Galapagos: Sweet; lots of flavor in a little package. Smells of the leaf.
- Blondköpfchen
- Gold Rush Currant: High acid and high sugar
- Green Doctors: Sweet and tart
Ribbed
- Ceylon: Excellent when cooked
Globes
- White Beauty
- Burpee’s Globe: Honey sweet
- Aunt Gertie’s Gold: Sumptuous, rich flavor
- Manitoba: Well-balanced, winey
- Red Rose: Very sweet and rich
- Yellow Peach: Well balanced
- Peach Blow Sutton: Cool and refreshing “tomato lite” flavor
- Russian Black: Earthy
- Flamme: Perfect blend of sweet and tart; fruity
Beefsteaks
- Pruden’s Purple: Luscious, savory, and sweet
- Black Krim: Green Giant: This is the best-tasting-green-when-ripe beefsteak.
- Aunt Ginny’s Purple: Rich flavor
- McClintock’s Big Pink: Delicious rich flavor
- Big Ben: A peach of a tomato—not as sweet as the Brandywines, but very rich.
- African Queen: Well-balanced, like wine—a taste I wish could last forever
- Believe It or Not: Perfectly balanced
- Hugh’s: Sweet and lemony. Seed-saving superman Neil Lockhart says Hugh’s is one of his favorites for flavor.
- Great White: Divinely sweet
- Santa Clara Canner: Well balanced
- Sudduth’s Brandywine: Like a fine wine. I dare any hybrid to measure up.
- Yellow Brandywine: High acid and high sugar. On everyone’s list of favorites.
- Bicolor Mortgage Lifter
- Marvel Striped: Sweet, one of the best bicolor beefsteaks
- Gold Medal: Well reviewed by tomato cognoscenti: “superbly
delicious” (Darrell Merrell); “top rated in flavor” (Ken Ettlinger);
“our finest bicolor” (Seed Savers Exchange)
- Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter: Well balanced
- Yellow Mortgage Lifter: Sweet and sprightly
- Mullen’s Mortgage Lifter
Pears & Plums
- Antique Roman: Beefy, savory
- Super Italian Paste
- Goldman’s Italian American: Sweet and luscious. Joan Dye Gussow,
author of This Organic Life, wrote to me one summer: “Goldman’s Italian
American tomato is a stunner. They taste lovely to say nothing of how
they LOOK. One plant in an urn is setting absolutely gigantic tomatoes.”
- Old Ivory Egg: Sweet and lemony
- Opalka:
- Orange Banana: A worthy rival of Flamme
- Anna Russian: Nice tang, mildly sweet and savory
- Purple Russian
- Amish Paste
- Vilms
- Elfin: Fruity and sweet
- Chile Verde: Finely balanced
Oxhearts
- Orange Russian 117: Honey-sweet, finely balanced, endowed with rich flavor
- Hungarian Heart: Savory
- Japanese Oxheart: Winey, sweet, nice fruit acid
Color Groups
- Dixie Golden Giant: Sweet and pleasing
- Casady’s Folly: Fruity
- Speckled Roman: Sweet and savory
- Aunt Ruby’s German Green: A perfect balance of acid and sugar
- Pink Salad: Mouth-watering in the same way as Sugary (an F1
hybrid miniature pink plum tomato, winner of a 2005 All America
Selections Award)
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