Best flavoured tomato ?

[Odsox]

I'm still looking for a nice flavoured tomato and was hoping you might have suggestions.
This is for sandwiches and salads rather than beefsteak for bottling passata or out of season ones.
The flavour I like is sweet/acid and not the bland vaguely tomatoey taste of varieties like Money Maker.
This year I'm trying Tigerella as the seed company described the fruit as "tangy", it's OK'ish but still not that tasty and the fruits are not much bigger that cherry toms anyway.
In the past I've tried Ailsa Craig (nice but terrible greenback), Craigella, Legend, Tommy Toe and Sub Arctic Plenty.
I rather like the sound of Black Russian, is anybody growing that one ?

I particularly like the flavour of Gardeners Delight, but not the size or their habit of dropping green fruits when you pick the ripe ones.
So, what I'm looking for is a tomato that tastes like Gardeners Delight, has fruit about 1.5 - 2 inches in diameter, grows as a cordon and is preferably not F1 so that I can save the seed.

So, any suggestions ?

[ina]

Red Brandywine had the best flavour of all I've tried so far... Not very reliable or great cropper, though.

[Muscroj]

ah, I was going to suggest gardeners delight, my mum has tried loads of varieties over the years & has stuck with GD for the last few as she thinks it's the best all rounder. BUt obviously you've tried that one already!

[Odsox]

ah, I was going to suggest gardeners delight, my mum has tried loads of varieties over the years & has stuck with GD for the last few as she thinks it's the best all rounder. BUt obviously you've tried that one already!

Yes ... I love the flavour of Gardeners Delight, but want real sized tomatoes, not silly little ones
They are probably ideal in salads, but I'm most definitely not a salad person and I am probably the only one on this site never to have grown Rocket and all the other new fangled salady leafy things.

[Annpan]

Oh, odsox.... you MUST grow rocket... You eat sandwiches don't you? rocket is so good, I can't grow enough of it.

[contadino]

Borgese.

[Martina]

Red Brandywine had the best flavour of all I've tried so far... Not very reliable or great cropper, though.

Ina, that is good to know. I am glad I decided to hold off growing them until next year. It would be discouraging to have a problem growing tomatoes in my first attempt. I do really want to give them a go though, as i like the idea of growing older/heirloom varieties of stuff.

Martina

[Millymollymandy]

I bought some cherry sized plum shaped toms from Lidl and they were the tastiest I've ever eaten, unfortunately they don't say what variety they are. Oh and I'm a GD fan too and have some growing amongst others this year, and these Lidl ones tasted better!

[gilly]

In this household we love the 'Balconi Cherry' Tomatoes. Absolutely bursting with taste. We also grew seeds that were sent from America last year. Must try and find out which variety they were. Somewhere it will be in my filing system. That's another story

[MKG]

The tastiest ones I've ever had were the ones you get from the market in Las Ramblas in Barcelona (big and fat, misshapen and split). Hell of a way to go, though.

Mike

[Muscroj]

I bought some cherry sized plum shaped toms from Lidl and they were the tastiest I've ever eaten, unfortunately they don't say what variety they are. Oh and I'm a GD fan too and have some growing amongst others this year, and these Lidl ones tasted better!

Sainsburys do a cherry sized plum tomato, I think it's called pomodorino and yes, they're a lovely flavour, especially on the vine, but I've never seen them as seeds.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/241/4621 ... e5.jpg?v=0

could be them?

[Millymollymandy]

They did look rather like that but very uniform plum shape like the one in the middle - there are ones in that picture that seem to be round or a bit knobbly. Surely they would have been rejected if the new wonky fruit and veg law hadn't come into force?

[Muscroj]

yes, the ones I had were much more uniform too. Perhaps Lidl & sainburys have fussier tomato police than where ever those were bought from!!

[Green Aura]

I'd been trying to remember what the really nice cherry plum toms we got from Sainsburps - and so didn't post. Then you've come up with them. I'm sure they're the same ones

We saved the seeds from a couple and grew them a few years back - really nice and came true, so presumably not hybrids. They were really good healthy plants too.

No Sainsburps up here though

[Millymollymandy]

Darn, too late now to save any seed and the last time I went to Lidl they only had 'ordinary' cherry toms.