sutebayashi wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 12:36 pm
Just been enjoying some of this Shine Muscat with wine, etc tonight- I can highly recommend this splendid produce!
Wine and Shine Muscat sounds like a great combo!
Deep Blue wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 2:01 pm
I didn't think there were any grapes to beat Shine Muscat, but this year we discovered Pione grapes and I am hooked. I confess we have consumed several kilo's of each already and it is hard to pick a winner. Shine Muscat are sweet and delicious and pione grapes feel like eating red wine to me....
First batch of furusato nozei mikans arrived today too
It is funny that you mention Pione, I liked them so much I quit my old life, moved to Japan and started to grow them for a living .
If you like Pione, I highly recommend you try Aki Queen or Queen Nina, both are red grapes. These two varieties taste like red candy and are very popular.
For varieties more similar to Shine Muscat. I recommend Queen Seven and Yuho. Queen Seven is my most popular grape. You can eat the skin and is sweeter than Shine Muscat and has softer skin. If you have children or grandchildren they will eat all of them before you can get your hands on them, so be aware of this before serving. Yuho is also very popular. It has eatable skin which is soft, not as sweet as Shine but it makes it up with it golf ball size berries and huge bunch size.
Do you have any recommendations for mikan varieties? I like Haruhime, Setoka and the yellow citrus fruit Haruka.