Cotton Candy Grapes
Hold the phone! I saw this new grape variety at the Berkeley Bowl last week, (my favorite San Francisco Bay Area Grocer) and had to try them. Everyone knows I’m food obsessed and always looking for the new and exotic. This grape courtesy of the creative folks at Grapery like a Moscato grape, are quite large and green. As soon as you bite into this little treasure, you are overcome with the scent and flavor of pink cotton candy. The Cotton Candy Grape is seedless. It’s quite a surprise, to be eating a grape so similar in taste to a carnival treat. My purist self immediately sent up a caution flag. Is this ethical to breed a grape that tastes like spun sugar? Unlike the Grapple, this grape isn’t bathed in cotton candy flavor; it’s bred into the vine over many years of trial and error. Grapery has some very rigorous growing requirements from organic fertilizers to drip irrigation and rain protection, which allows the grapes to mature to their peak of flavor.
Try them for yourself and take a quick trip to the carnival.
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