Well it depends on your climate, and taste buds. Your question was Best tasting only which is very subjective. I see your in Conroe, Texas. I'm thinking that is what zone 8b-9? Personally, I think you live in a great area for growing just about anything, more rain than we get by at least 12 inches a year.
I would love to tell you which ones by timing for me, but all my figs, because they are young, are ripening much later than normal.
My family really loves Vista/VdB. Really hard to beat a perfectly ripe one, rich and complex.
Smith is another great tasting variety, but wasn't IMHO better than VdB, just different. I would say VdB is a medium season here. I have tasted other figs, and like I said before, a few equaled taste sensation of VdB, but none have surpassed it.
Most who have tasted one say Preto is a great late variety, mine have grown well, but still waiting for ripe figs.
An excellent early one for me was St. Rita.
Some of the "higher" end figs ripened this week during our flood so CdDB, and Bourjasotte Noir split, can't give an accurate taste profile to these.
Maybe some of the fig growers that have been doing this longer from that area will chime in like Fatnsassytexan, and others.
I too wanted to squeeze more figs into my space. I planted on 6' centers with plans on lots of pruning, but after just one year I'm not certain I would do it again with spacing less than 10'.
Plan on pinching a lot to keep plants lower, I waited and regret it now. Structural branches are going to be higher off the ground than needed, and I'll be hard pressed to reach ripe fruit from ground which is my current goal in a couple years. Some have great structure, but it doesn't start until 24" which is wasted space, If possible I now want structure to start at 8-10" from ground.
Just some things to think about.