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No. 048 · open-pollinated

Sweet Aperitif

Sweet Aperitif is an indeterminate open-pollinated cherry tomato with glossy bright red fruit. It ripens in about 80 days.

Typecherry tomato
Habitindeterminate
Days to maturity80
Fruit size0.25 to 0.5 oz
Colorglossy bright red
Difficultymoderate

Flavor

Described as one of the sweetest cherry tomatoes, with high sugar balanced by enough acidic tang to give a refreshing, wine-like, almost tropical taste. As with every flavor note here, this is the recurring catalog and grower description, not a measured claim.

Origin

A cherry tomato popularized in the UK and widely sold by Suttons; offered in the US by Territorial Seed and Pinetree Garden Seeds. Earlier development history was not stated in the sources fetched.

What it does well

  • Very high sugar with balancing acidity for a sweet, complex flavor
  • Heavy yielder on long trusses
  • Thin-skinned but notably crack resistant

Where it frustrates

  • Indeterminate vines need staking or trellising
  • Small fruit size means slow picking

Like Sweet Aperitif, but...

Sold out, or after a change? The closest alternatives, and how they differ.

Sungoldbut red rather than orange and a touch less tropicalSweet 100but described as sweeter and more crack resistant

Where to buy seed

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