what is your most intensely-flavored tomato? - Page 3

FarmerShawn · August 18, 2015

Around here, for the second year, Wes, a red heart, takes the prize. Not acidic, particularly, just incredibly rich and complex.

sjamesNorway · August 18, 2015

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Originally Posted by FarmerShawn

Around here, for the second year, Wes, a red heart, takes the prize. Not acidic, particularly, just incredibly rich and complex.

How was Wes' yield?

Steve
(who grew up in NH)

PaulF · August 18, 2015

For me, intense indicates a flavor that makes me say,"Wow, that's a good tomato." Intense flavor can be one overriding flavor either tart or sweet, or several different taste buds working at the same time or in series meaning aftertaste.

I enjoy the intensity of a sweet tomato more than a tart one. This year the sweet ones with intense flavor are: 1884 Purple, Bear Claw, Blue Ridge Mountain, Delicious, Believe It Or Not and Kellogg's Breakfast/KBX. My all time complex intensely flavored tomato is Old Brooks.

FarmerShawn · August 18, 2015

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Originally Posted by sjamesNorway

How was Wes' yield?

Steve
(who grew up in NH)

It's not the best producer, I'd say, but certainly not the worst. I prune to two stems, so that might cut production some, but Wes also makes some big hearts, as big as a pound and a half, give or take. It's the only one a pesky vole ate, of all the low-hanging fruit it had to choose from, so that's gotta tell you something!

Fiishergurl · August 18, 2015

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Originally Posted by AdrianaG

Ginny, I'm curious how Fred's Tie Dye compares in intensity to Pink Berkeley Tie Dye? Fred's is a dwarf with PBT in its lineage.

Oh that's a good question. Maybe Fred or somebody else on here would know?

Ginny

Mike723 · August 18, 2015

I've been enjoying the Cherokee Purples this year, as well as the Ananas Noires.. Although I don't think Noire would qualify as "intense," I find them moderately sweet and delicately delicious lol.. I found Isis Candys to be wonderfully sweet, but very disease prone (IMLE). My favorite cherry of the year would have to be black cherry (one of yours as well!).. I'm also enjoying Pork Chop (second year with it). German Strawberry was a unique tomato, but not one I'd rush back to apart from the novelty of it. . So to conform to the "intense" requirement of the thread I'd have to go with Black Cherry..

Father'sDaughter · August 18, 2015

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Originally Posted by FarmerShawn

Around here, for the second year, Wes, a red heart, takes the prize. Not acidic, particularly, just incredibly rich and complex.

More evidence that there is no right answer when it comes to flavor! I thought Wes was good, but a bit bland compared to others when I grew it last year. Personal taste buds, location and growing conditions all play in.

I tasted one of the most intensely flavored tomatoes yet, in my opinion--Moravsky Div. All the first fruit the plant set in June (while we were away for almost three weeks) had BER. The second round is just starting to ripen and I finally got to taste one tonight. Initial impression was that it was similar to taking a sip of an intense, rich and bold red wine.

AdrianaG · August 19, 2015

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I tasted one of the most intensely flavored tomatoes yet, in my opinion--Moravsky Div... Initial impression was that it was similar to taking a sip of an intense, rich and bold red wine.]

How nice, when I first grew Black Cherry years ago, wine-like was my description of them as well. Im growing Black Cherry again after a long hiaitus. Mine got off to a late start this year and are just starting to ripen. Fingers crossed....

b54red · August 19, 2015

This year I had two distinct periods the first was early before it got too hot and when there was adequate rainfall. During that period Giant Belgium, German Johnson, Couilles de Taureau, Dester, Cowlick's Brandywine and Sudduth's were the most intense.

The second period was a long hot dry spell and the most intensely flavored tomatoes during that time were Indian Stripe, Indian Stripe PL, JD's Special C Tex, Spudakee, Couilles de Taureau, Neves Azorean Red and Giant Belgium.

I'm sure I'll have some different ones topping the flavor charts during the fall.

Bill

Cole_Robbie · August 20, 2015

The best red tomato I ate this summer was a Peiping Chieh, a variety that had made me mad all summer with its catfacing and BER. I hadn't watered the high tunnel in a couple of weeks. I just happened to try a fruit as I was pulling out the plant. It reminded me of Red Barn.

travis · August 20, 2015

I just now read the first page of this thread, and while I saw a couple dozen names of tomatoes I have grown and tasted, many of which are excellent tomatoes, I have to conclude that some peoples' ideas of "intensely flavored" tomatoes are diametrically opposite of my own taste perceptions.

I saw many bland, sweet, and moderately flavored tomatoes called out as intensely flavored. I saw one or two that I agree are intensely flavored. And I have a keen sense of flavor developed over the past 11 years of non-smoking of tobacco.

Just goes to prove that taste is highly subjective, especially when it comes to intensely flavored tomatoes, which I assume to have meant tomatoes with significant acid bite balanced by sufficient sweetness and certainly possessing a strong tomato aroma.

No wonder supermarket tomatoes continue to sell like hotcakes!

travis · August 20, 2015

Neves Azorean Red, Daniels, Bolseno F1 ...

**carolyn137** · August 20, 2015

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Originally Posted by travis

I just now read the first page of this thread, and while I saw a couple dozen names of tomatoes I have grown and tasted, many of which are excellent tomatoes, I have to conclude that some peoples' ideas of "intensely flavored" tomatoes are diametrically opposite of my own taste perceptions.

I saw many bland, sweet, and moderately flavored tomatoes called out as intensely flavored. I saw one or two that I agree are intensely flavored. And I have a keen sense of flavor developed over the past 11 years of non-smoking of tobacco.

Just goes to prove that taste is highly subjective, especially when it comes to intensely flavored tomatoes, which I assume to have meant tomatoes with significant acid bite balanced by sufficient sweetness and certainly possessing a strong tomato aroma.

No wonder supermarket tomatoes continue to sell like hotcakes!

Except for the personal low blow comment about smoking,

I agree with whats you've said. I can't say how many times I've said that a single variety that someone likes, tangy or not, is NOT liked by others.

Taste is personal and perceptual and even has some human genetic factors involved as well as all the other variables that can influence taste in any one season.

But speaking of aroma, there's one variety that I can ID just by smelling the aroma of cut slices and that's Prue, which I love but IMO is not a tangy variety.

Carolyn

travis · August 20, 2015

Well, maybe to nonsmokers that aromatic Prue has a more pronounced TANG

**carolyn137** · August 20, 2015

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Originally Posted by travis

Well, maybe to nonsmokers that aromatic Prue has a more pronounced TANG

So try it yourself non-smoker Sir William, and see what you think.

Carolyn

August 18, 2015	#31
FarmerShawn Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Vermont Posts: 1,001	Around here, for the second year, Wes, a red heart, takes the prize. Not acidic, particularly, just incredibly rich and complex. __________________ "Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!" -- Tommy Smothers

August 18, 2015	#33
PaulF Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brownville, Ne Posts: 3,289	For me, intense indicates a flavor that makes me say,"Wow, that's a good tomato." Intense flavor can be one overriding flavor either tart or sweet, or several different taste buds working at the same time or in series meaning aftertaste. I enjoy the intensity of a sweet tomato more than a tart one. This year the sweet ones with intense flavor are: 1884 Purple, Bear Claw, Blue Ridge Mountain, Delicious, Believe It Or Not and Kellogg's Breakfast/KBX. My all time complex intensely flavored tomato is Old Brooks. __________________ there's two things money can't buy; true love and home grown tomatoes.

August 18, 2015	#36
Mike723 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: CT Posts: 290	I've been enjoying the Cherokee Purples this year, as well as the Ananas Noires.. Although I don't think Noire would qualify as "intense," I find them moderately sweet and delicately delicious lol.. I found Isis Candys to be wonderfully sweet, but very disease prone (IMLE). My favorite cherry of the year would have to be black cherry (one of yours as well!).. I'm also enjoying Pork Chop (second year with it). German Strawberry was a unique tomato, but not one I'd rush back to apart from the novelty of it. . So to conform to the "intense" requirement of the thread I'd have to go with Black Cherry..

August 19, 2015	#39
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	This year I had two distinct periods the first was early before it got too hot and when there was adequate rainfall. During that period Giant Belgium, German Johnson, Couilles de Taureau, Dester, Cowlick's Brandywine and Sudduth's were the most intense. The second period was a long hot dry spell and the most intensely flavored tomatoes during that time were Indian Stripe, Indian Stripe PL, JD's Special C Tex, Spudakee, Couilles de Taureau, Neves Azorean Red and Giant Belgium. I'm sure I'll have some different ones topping the flavor charts during the fall. Bill

August 20, 2015	#40
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	The best red tomato I ate this summer was a Peiping Chieh, a variety that had made me mad all summer with its catfacing and BER. I hadn't watered the high tunnel in a couple of weeks. I just happened to try a fruit as I was pulling out the plant. It reminded me of Red Barn.

August 20, 2015	#41
travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	I just now read the first page of this thread, and while I saw a couple dozen names of tomatoes I have grown and tasted, many of which are excellent tomatoes, I have to conclude that some peoples' ideas of "intensely flavored" tomatoes are diametrically opposite of my own taste perceptions. I saw many bland, sweet, and moderately flavored tomatoes called out as intensely flavored. I saw one or two that I agree are intensely flavored. And I have a keen sense of flavor developed over the past 11 years of non-smoking of tobacco. Just goes to prove that taste is highly subjective, especially when it comes to intensely flavored tomatoes, which I assume to have meant tomatoes with significant acid bite balanced by sufficient sweetness and certainly possessing a strong tomato aroma. No wonder supermarket tomatoes continue to sell like hotcakes!