2011 Taste Test Results
2) Green Zebra
3) Stupice
4) Black Prince
5) Green Grape and Azoychka (tie)
6) Snowball
7) Mexico
8) Chocolate Stripes
9) Neves Azorean
10) Pantano Romanesco
Not taste tested because it wouldn't be fair: Sun Gold Cherry
Not available for taste testing: Brandy Boy, Pink Accordion, San Marzano Redorta, Vintage Wine.
2010 Taste Test Results
1) Green Zebra
2) Chocolate Stripes
3) Fred Limbaugh
4) Mexico
5) Stupice
6) Brandywine
7) Big Beef
8) Zarnitza
9) Cherokee Purple
10) Black Krim
11) Sunsets New Horizon
12) Earl of EdgeCombe
13) Vintage Wine
14) Mortgage Lifter
Not taste tested because it wouldn't be fair: Sun Gold Cherry
Also not taste tested was Russian Big Roma because I only grew it to sell plants; I didn't sell the fruit.
2009 Taste Test Results
No taste tasting in 2009 (not formally anyway)
All 2009 Varieties
Big Beef
Brandywine
Black from Tula
Bloody Butcher
Chocolate Stripes
Dr. Wyche's Yellow
Gigantesque
Green Zebra
Italian Heirloom
Marianna's Peace
Moon Glow
Mr. Brown
Orange Cherry
Tidwell German
Vintage Wine
2008 Taste Test Results
1) Chocolate Stripes
2) Brandywine
3) Green Zebra / Black Krim
4) German Red Strawberry / Homer Fike's
5) Vintage Wine
6) Aunt Gertie's Gold / Italian Tree
7) Lahman Pink
Not included in taste testing: Aussie, Big Beef, Stupice, Sun Gold Cherry, Tidwell German
All 2008 Varieties
Aunt Gertie's Gold
Aussie
Big Beef
Black Krim
Brandywine
Chocolate Stripes
German Red Strawberry
Green Zebra
Homer Fike's Yellow Oxheart
Italian Tree
Lahman Pink
Stupice
Sun Gold Cherry
Tidwell German
Vintage Wine
2007 Taste Test Results
No taste tasting in 2007 (not formally anyway)
All 2007 Varieties
Aussie
Big Beef
Black Cherry
Black Krim
Brandywine OTV
Carmello
Dagma's Perfection
Dr. Neal
Flamme’
Green Zebra
Lemony (aka Limmony)
Orange Russian 117
Purple Calabash
Sisters
Stupice
Sun Gold Cherry
Wins All
2006 Taste Test Results
Red Tomato category
#1 - Stupice
#2 - Big Beef
#3 - Good Old Fashioned
#4 - Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red
#5 - Radiator Charilies Mortgage Lifter
#6 - Brandywine
#7 - Tappy's Finest
Non-Red Tomato category
#1 - Sun Gold Cherry
#2 - Flamme'
#3 - Green Zebra
#4 - Black Prince
#5 - Dad's Sunset
#6 - Black Krim
#7 - Pineapple
Others not ranked because they were not available on the day of testing.
All 2006 Varieties
Believe It Or Not
Big Beef
Black Krim
Black Prince
Brandywine (Suddath's Strain & regular)
Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red
Dad's Sunset
Flamme’
Good Old Fashioned Red
Green Zebra
Paul Robeson
Pineapple
Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter
Stupice
Sun Gold Cherry
Tappy’s Finest
2005 Taste Test Results
1) Sun Gold
2) Big Beef
2) Dona
3) Brandywine (Cathy’s)
4) Brandywine (mine)
5) Druzba
5) Lemon Boy
6) Black Krim
7) Rutgers
(not tasted) Box Car Willie
(not tasted) Martino’s Roma
(not tasted) Persimmon
(not tasted) Stupice
All 2005 Varieties
Big Beef
Black Krim
Box Car Willie
Brandywine
Dona
Druzba
Lemon Boy
Martino’s Roma
Persimmon
Rutgers
Stupice
Sun Gold