Home tomato harvest/share season is full-blown here at last.
“Better Boy” is the favorite to grow here,
A friend has quite a few “Purple Cherokee”. So good, almost like they’d been smoked in a fire.
The flavor of Cherokee Purple is beyond description - but I like that ‘smokey’ description you used. Spot on!
I tried a ‘Cherokee Carbon’ last year that was a cross between the Cherokee Purple and a red Carbon. It was a nicer looking tomato, but the flavor was not the same.
Cherokee’s can be kind of lumpy and bumpy and a little blemished, but that’s easy to overlook once you taste them. :)