It is cold here and I am thinking longingly about all my favorite fruit varieties. Here is a list of a few “greatest hits” from my orchard that I am really glad I have growing. Feel free to follow up with your own orchard greatest hits.
Pome
I made a bunch of apple categories, part of the joy of apples is the variety in the flavors and I really appreciate having some of each type.
Apple, aromatic: Suncrisp, Hoople’s Antique Gold.
Apple, sweet/sour: Rubinette. GoldRush and Pitmaston Pineapple are also great sweet/sour apples.
Apple, sweet: Kidds Orange Red.
Apple, nutty: Swayzie or Pomme Gris.
Apple, grape-like: Wagener. You know a grape-like apple when you eat one. SpiGold and Northern Spy are other grape-tasting apples but they rot too much for me.
Apple, cooking: Blenheim Orange, Reine des Reinettes. These apples are also excellent eating.
Apple, early: Ginger Gold, Pristine.
Apple, cider: Harrison.
Pear, Asian: Kosui.
Pear, Euro: Fondante des Moulins-Lille.
Quince: None, too many fireblight problems. I am trying a few supposedly resistant ones now.
Medlar: See quince.
Stone
Peach, yellow/orange: Red Baron. I don’t have a strong winner here, there are many peaches which are very tasty. Some other really good ones include Rio Oso Gem, Kit Donnell, and Baby Crawford. These are all somewhat later, the earlier ones are often in more rainy weather so are not as consistent from year to year.
Peach, white: Nectar, Xin Dai Jiu Bao. If brown rot is not so bad for you, Silver Logan is like Nectar but bigger.
Peach, yellow: Yellow St. John. By yellow peach I mean honestly yellow, not the usual yellow-orange. There are not many yellow peaches and the flavor is different.
Peach, red: Sanguine Tardeva. This peach tastes similar to Indian Free but is earlier and less prone to rot.
Peach, honey: Athena. Or Pallas but it is more prone to rot.
Peach, early: Gold Dust. This peach is not super-early, just early. It tastes as good as a regular-season peach.
Nectarine: Sunglo. I have grown about a dozen nectarines, many rot and crack. There are still plenty of good ones but Sunglo has been a notch above. I have grown no white or red nectarines until recently so no greatest hits there.
Apricot: Ilona. There are many good apricots, Florilege, OrangeRed, Tomcot, etc.
Apricot, white: I don’t have a favorite here now, none are reliable enough (yet). Shalah may be the most tasty.
Plum, Asian: Satsuma, Laroda.
Plum, Euro: Golden Transparent Gage, French Petite.
Pluot: None so far, but I am trying Flavor King again. It is excellent tasting but prone to rot. Now that I am spraying a synthetic I may be able to grow it.
Cherry-Plum: None. Nadia was the best I tried but it does not ripen well. Too bad as it is fun to have a plum with a bit of cherry taste.
Cherry, sweet white: White Gold. It is not super productive but is otherwise excellent.
Cherry, sweet red: I don’t have a strong favorite here yet. I had a Black Gold which was great but I had to take it out and I later replaced it with a so-called Black Gold which was small-fruited and low flavor. So not sure what is going on there. Right now Regina is my favorite red sweet cherry, it is tasty, reliable, and productive.
Cherry, sour: Montmorency.
Cherry, bush: I am still waiting for my bushes to mature. It is not clear they will be worth growing in my climate but so far they are doing OK and I got a couple tasty fruits from them.
Other tree
Mulberry: Kokuso. Illinois Everbearing is a bit tastier but I need one ripening close together so I can get some before the birds show up.
Pawpaw: Maria’s Joy. And any of the Peterson pawpaws or Overleese is nearly as good.
Persimmon, PCNA: 20th Century. All these are relatively similar to me.
Persimmon, PCA: I don’t have a true “greatest hit” here yet. Hachiya was awesome but it is borderline hardy and I lost my tree a few years ago. There are many ones coming close but no replacement for it yet.
Persimmon, PVNA: Chocolate. This is also my favorite persimmon overall.
Fig: Celeste. I am getting out of the fig business, they are dying back too much and I don’t feel like growing potted figs.
Jujube: So far none. I am still trying to get them to reliably fruit. Honey Jar is my favorite for taste.
Pomegranate: None. I am probably going to be out of the pomegranate business soon. Too much dieback in my climate, only a couple fruits after ten years of growing.
Berries
Blueberry: Northern high bush types. The other types don’t get as sweet for me.
Raspberry: Josephine. This berry has a unique flavor and I absolutely love it.
Blackberry: Triple Crown, Osage, or Galaxy. All of these thornless ones are similar to me. They are not as tasty as the trailing berries but none of the trailing ones survive my heat.
Currant, red: Red Lake. This old variety has very small berries, but it has been much more reliable in my climate. I have 15-year old bushes still going strong while all my other reds died many years ago.
Currant, black: Minaj Smyriou. Like Red Lake this is the only one not dead in my heat, and it also is my favorite for taste.
Gooseberry: Poorman. It is not so productive, but like the currents this is the only one left standing. They are also the most tasty one for me.
Strawberry: Mara des Bois.
Vines
Grapes, vinifera hybrid: Swenson Red. I pulled my Swenson Red a few years ago since my family was not into seeded grapes, but it was quite a bit better in terms of production and taste compared to any of the seedless ones (so far). I am hoping some of the newer Arkansas seedless grapes end up producing well but so far they are not reliable for me.
Grapes, muscadine: Black Beauty and Supreme, and Ison for pollen.
Kiwi: Any chinensis (yellow fuzzy). The yellow fuzzy kiwis have the best flavor to me; they are not hardy in much colder climates and you need a long season for them.
Nuts
Filbert/Hazelnut: Yamhill, Theta. These nuts are a little on the small side but they look to be blight-immune and they are not rotting. Santiam is a bad rotter.
BTW thanks @dimitri_7a for your list in Growingfruit.org Home Orchard Starter Pack?, I started with those categories. This is sort of like your list but not with any attempt at generality, it is just what I like growing in my own orchard.
but Myer’s Royal Limbertwig and King of Pippins were my best eating apples last fall. Red Royal Limbertwig, Hubbardson’s Nonesuch, Laxton’s Fortune and Pixie Crunch were also very good eaters.
I hope to have a few hits in the next few years myself 
Lots of great variety and ideas for me!