Piennolo Vine Tomatoes - Casa Barone - Mount Vesuvius, Campania, Italy - 18.4 oz

Wish I could still get this in the big jars. The little ones are just too small to be cost effective. The tomatoes are wonderful, though!

product as expected, delivery really fast, 2 days!!!!

Delicious and worth the order

excellent product which I can't find in Toronto

I didn't buy mine online. I have a local source--still expensive for a jar of tomatoes, but they absolutely are a delight. The recommended recipe of a gentle simmer is perfect for cool summer day--or a taste of summer in the cold months. We like them with buccatini. Another reviewer whined about the skins--no true gardener of tomato lover would pay this any mind. The skins are ethereal. In the summer we eat a dish that is literally tomatoes still warm off the vine, fresh basil, a lot of garlic and some mildly hot red pepper (or dried flakes work in a pinch)--and these tomatoes are the closest thing I've tasted to the fresh tomatoes we cut right out of the garden. For most people who buy tasteless grocery store baseball-style fruit, or worse yet the insanely salty processed sauce from jars, you have no idea what is waiting for you inside this little jar....

$21 with shipping for a small jar of tomatoes, they better be to tomatoes what La Tache is to wine. Unfortunately, these are not. For one thing, they are UNPEELED, and they don't tell you!! This may not bother you if you have a streak if masochism, where you just love to fuss endlessly with trying to get every last bit of the indigestible and annoying shredded skins from these little cherry-tomato-sized units out of the way.Me, I have way better things to do. Tasty tomatoes, yes, but so are genuine DOP San Marzanos that can be had for 1/4 the price, and they've been pre-peeled to boot.And to me the suggested recipe of just "gently heating" these into a garlic and olive oil base and then pouring that over spaghetti is maybe a one-time-interesting experience. Thanks, but having a simple uncooked, fresh-tomato taste over pasta seems like sort of a fey or pretentious thing to have with spaghetti. For me, it will never replace the satisfying richness and complexity of flavor of a slow and long-steeped tomato sauce like an arrabbiata, marinara, or Bolognese.