The first commercial volumes of a new California table grape are heading for the UK.
Black seedless grape Sweet Surrender™was bred by David Cain of International Fruit Genetics and was harvested for the first time at Grapery’s farm in Arvin, California, last week.
Jack Pandol, owner of Grapery, pictured (above left) with Duncan Macintyre of MMUK (centre) and Jim Beagle, CEO of Grapery (right) has been investing in the IFG programme for eight years in an effort to develop new, high quality, seedless table grapes with better flavour. Sweet Surrender is the first of this new series. Pandol said Grapery harvests this variety at 21 brix to allow its plum-like flavour to fully develop on the vine.
The new IFG varieties, grown by Grapery, will be available exclusively from MMUK and the first Sweet Surrender are now being sold in limited volumes in Marks & Spencer stores.
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