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« on: December 27, 2013, 11:01:58 PM »
Wonderful, Parfianka, and Angel Red all have a similar taste profile. The advantages of the Angel Red is that it is much more vigorous and more productive pomegranate. It also tastes like Wonderful, bears earlier, and has softer seeds.
People argue enough about Wonderful, because it's so common, but it's common for good reason. It is a bit more tricky to have a Wonderful that gets the sort of fruit that deserves the name, though. Angel Red is pretty much just hype, and I'm pretty sure you can safely trust me when I say that Parfianka will, more often than not, deliver a better taste. Mwaterman07 lives in z9 Arizona, though. That's really hot enough, long enough, for the best fruits unless you're looking for a longer season or something with multiple varieties. If you want a better Wonderful, you should go with one of the other classic vineous type pomegranates like Parfianka or Palermo. There isn't any sure thing about how a pomegranate will react to your specific circumstances--many will have a bitter taste, or an unwanted aftertaste, etc, etc. That's the luck of the draw, though.
If you want something other than the classic vineous taste, Desertnyi and G.R. have citrus accents, the first, a kind of orange/tropical taste, and the second is often described as lemonade-like.