Raf:
There are many, many fakes, including raff. As raf just means "fusarium resistant", other tomatoes with such resistance are also sold under this name. In other words, it's not that easy to get the real thing, you never really know what you are getting.
They can have good flavour, nothing amazing, not even very good, just good. We have many better varieties.
They are grown in cool weather in saline soil/water. Salt increases sugar. I've seen papers stating it has 9 brix ... no way. You must do magic for that. I've got a variety related to marmande that looses much flavour when it's hot. Might have the same problem.
Photos in Tatiana's web don't look like the real thing to me. Raf has a lot of ribs and very green shoulders.
As it's a common variety I don't plant it. Guess I should one year to compare with my other tomatoes.
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