recommendations for sweet-tart tomatoey varieties?

[venturabananas]

I love any fruit with a nice sweet-tart balance, tomatoes included. Of the few dozen varieties I've grown, Rebel Yell, Spike, and Brandywine Sudduth are the best examples of sweet-tart varieties that also have that classic tomato flavor. What are some other varieties with that sort of flavor profile that are also productive?

[Scooty]

Are you looking for bold/intense? or more subtle? Cause you have something really tart and really sweet vs something subtly sweet and subtly sour.

[venturabananas]

Bold and intense. I've seen Spike described as having a bombastic flavor, and it's probably my favorite tasting tomato so far.

[Scooty]

Polish Ellis, Aunt Ginny's Purple, Sweet Scarlet come to mind

[FarmerShawn]

Check out Wes, a red heart with, for me, fantastic flavor.

[wxcrawler]

I'll second Aunt Ginny's Purple. It's one of my top 3 favorites.


Lee

[jtjmartin]

Red Barn is another with that classic tomato flavor.

Very happy to see Aunt Ginny's Purple on the list - I have a couple hardening off outside now!

Jeff

[Tormato]

Aunt Ginny's Purple is my favorite tomato, out of 1,000+ trialed. In my garden, with my taste buds, it is not a sweet/tart tomato. Labradors2, I believe, described it the best..."almost too sweet". To me, it has the richest flavor of the "sweet class" of tomatoes.


Wes, much more sweet than two others that I recommend...Donskoi and Russian #117. Remember, my garden, my taste buds, your mileage may vary.


Others that I recommend...Seek-No-Further Love Apple, and the most recommended of all... Stump of the World.


If you want to venture into tart/sweet, it would be Aunt Gertie's Gold. To me, a tart tomato, that finishes with a hint of sweetness.

[Labradors2]

Haha! You remembered, Gary . I was reading the recommendations and thinking WHAT? Aunt Ginny's had no tartness to me, it was very very sweet.

I do agree about Dwarf Sweet Scarlet though. I found that a little too tart for my taste when eaten raw, but I thought it was sublime when cooked.


I wish I could remember the flavor profile of Spike (which I grew last year). I liked it, but I liked Taste better. It's right up there with my all time favourites, Little Lucky and Blush.

Linda

[Scooty]

I'd trust Tormato and Labradors2 before I would trust my own taste buds. I also forgot the original post requested balanced sweet and tart. AGP is just intense to me. It's not candy sweet (at least to me), but it is very bold with regard to sweetness.

Also second Tormato's pick Seek No Further Love Apple.

[FarmerShawn]

I also love SNFLA, but class it as sweet/complex, in line with Brandywine. For tart/tangy, I like Jaune Flamee. Green Zebra is too tart for me.

[zipcode]

The sweet/tart balance can be fairly strongly influenced by fertilizer, high K and Ca will generally lead to high acidity. Of course, depending on the variety that balance has a limit.
My favourites for balanced that don't feel sweet or acidic are generally GWRs. Aunt Gertie I would describe as aggressively acidic in my conditions (which seek to enhance the flavour to the maximum).

[PaulF]

While I enjoy sweet tomatoes more than balanced there have been a few that have made me second guess:
Believe-It-Or-Not, Canadian Heart, Grandpa Willie, Italian Giant, Nepal, Old Brooks (my favorite tangy), Terhune and Watermelon Beefsteak I would consider sweet/tart grown in my Nebraska garden

[venturabananas]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'd love to see what other folks think, too.

I think the way I grow my plants, in containers, the tomatoes tend to be very sweet, sweeter than when I've grown them in ground, and I need a bit of zing to balance that. But I do also like a complex, full bodied taste. FarmerShawn mentioned Jaune Flamme, which I like a lot, but it doesn't have that complex, full bodied taste to me.

[ginger2778]

Try Olive Hill and also African Queen. Both are pink PL beefsteaks with an intense flavor, balanced but a bit in the sweet side. To me they both have that POW! Year after year I can't be without them.