APPEARANCE Rating: 
Standard tangerine looks – orange skin, orange flesh, no seeds.
AROMA Rating: 
Strong, lovely and sweet tangerine.
TEXTURE Rating:
Amazingly soft, running all over my shirt dripping with juice.
TASTE Rating:
Perfectly acidic, slightly flowery, strong, sweet and complicated flavor.
OVERALL Overall Rating:
Extremely delicious. What can I say? This, THIS, is a tangerine. This is the kind of fruit that should make the standard orange hide in shame. Don’t get me wrong, I like oranges. But WOW! This is the kind of fruit you secretly make out with. It’s what perfect lips should be. This is sexy fruit.
FRUIT
Mandarin
VARIETY
Page
PEAK
Winter
GROWN
California
PURCHASED
Farmer’s Market
NOTES
So once again the world of citrus vexes me. This particular tangerine was released (whatever that means-as if fruit is released from prison or into the wild or something) as an orange but technically speaking the variety is a tangelo hybrid since it is three-fourths mandarin and one-fourth grapefruit. Can you believe it? A TANGELO HYBRID! I think I’m going to have to start a citrus poser page.
What a wildly wonderful review of this fruit. I got a tree this summer and after reading your review I can’t wait for it to produce fruit.
O M G, Becky! You’re hysterical!!!
You make fruits sound so darn sexy … you’re right!!
Now I’m going to call Devon and have him find me a couple of these wonderful, “drippy down my shirt” fruit trees.
Thanks for the pulpy love you share!
😀
Now I may be biased, being a Paige myself, but this is the most delicious citrus you will ever taste!
I’ve been growing Page (the correct spelling) for 17 years now in West Los Angeles. The flavor reminds me of eating Tang powder from the jar as a kid. Absolutely the best tasting tangerine I’ve ever had! My tree grows about a thousand smaller sized fruits on a good year and 50 or so on a bad year. Love your description!
Suffice it for me to declare that this fruit was literally the sole Christmas gift for everyone I know for 30 years, all 30 of which i was hounded by the recipients beginning soon after Halloween. Beware, though. If not cultivated in high sandy ground and experience a jolt or two of cold winter air (but not full blown snowy winter) the fruit is watery and almost tasteless. At least one big citrus picture book dismisses it- ignore that. The author surely missed those from the colder, drier regions. As far as I am aware, its sole worthy farm in Florida, northwest of Orlando, was lost 25 yrs ago to development, and I filed it in my memory bank. But your wonderful article has prompted me to renew the hunt.