The best red... Really red... That I have grown is Holly Dancer.
Others I like are from Vic Santa Lucia or Van Sellers. They worked a lot with BIG APPLE and BILL FALL. Both of those are good reds. I have their Cherokee Star, and I like it well enough that I have kept it a long time, over ten years.
Some of Jamie Gossards go back to Holly Dancer, and tet Holly Dancer. He has some nice reds from those crosses. He is a few generations into it by now. A friend grows Megatron, and I always notice it.