My mother, DH, and I attended the CHOPTAG tomato tasting at the end of August. It was our first such event. DH has never met a tomato he didn't like, so his report would be that all tasted good.
My mother came away from the tasting more convince than ever that nothing beats her Big Beefs and Early Girls.
I have trouple tasting tomatoes; literally, my taste buds taste them differently from other people. Carolyn is fond of saying there's a genetic component to tastebuds, so everyone tastes tomatoes differently, and boy is it true in my case. In spades. Many of them I can barely taste at all. So here is what my wierd tastebuds said:
The Good:
Big Brandy F1 Good.
Chocolate Cherry Good, no tang.
Dester Good, sweet & tangy.
Dotson's Lebanese Heart Good, would be good fried green(?)
Dr. Carolyn's Good. Sweet and tart
Golden Green Good, tart & sweet.
Green Bomb Good, tastes a little fried-greeny.
Hardin's Miniature Good, very flavorful, not especially sweet.
Hillbilly Good.
Lucky Tiger Good. Sweet with a bit of tang.
Post Office Spoonful Good, like a full sized tomato.
Rosella Good, very good.
Sungold F1 Good, lots of flavor, sweet, tart, everything.
The Bland:
Andrew Rahart's
Bela
Ben's Ivory Pear
Bulgarian Oxheart
Carbon Bland but smokey
Chef's Choice Orange
Chocolate Stripe Bland but OK
Cuor di Bue Bland but good (Not sure what I meant here).
Dwarf Mr. Snow
Dwarf Rosella Crimson
Gardener's Choice
George Detsikas Italian Red
Green Pear Cherry
Japanese Trifele Black
Moonshiner's Ball
Morado Vejer de la Frontera
Orange Strawberry
Park's Whopper CR Improved F1
Pepe Jose (one of two, I guess)
Piker Vesy Bland but tomatoey
Rebecca Allen Bland but good (again, puzzling, oxymoronic).
Sandberg
The UGH-ly
Blue Cream
Cherokee Purple
Little Willie's Wiener
Tarasenko Hybrid
Everything else:
Campari acid only.
Captain Lucky Tart-ish
Faworyt Sharp, strong, OK
Lucid Gem Tart.
Matt's Wild Cherry Sweet & tangy but not tomatoey
Mountain Glory Tart only.
Pepe Jose Sweet & tomatoey (again, one of two?).
Red Brandymaster No sweet.
sunrise Bumblebee OK, not great
Upstate Mild & sweet
Wagner Blue Green Sweet & tangy (but for some reason, I didn't say good).
Yellow Fire Sweet & mild.
I'm grateful when I can taste a tomato at all. I will probably attend every tasting I can. It's invaluable to find out which ones I'll be able to taste if I grow them.
Nan