– When you think about producers’ hard work all year round [twinogron Ruby Roman – red.]1.4 million yen is cheap, said the 66-year-old buyer of Sie Ming-ta. He is an entrepreneur, he runs a deli chain in Taiwan.
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The auction in Kanazawa was the first of the season. The entrepreneur’s offer broke last year’s record by 100 thousand. yen – reports the Japanese agency.
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This is the continuation of the Ruby Romanov trend, the prices of which have been rising for three years. Why? The variety of these grapes is grown exclusively in the Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa, whose capital is Kanazawa. These fruits are of impressive size – each cluster is the size of a ping-pong ball.
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The Ruby Roman variety is characterized by high sugar content and low acidity. They debuted on the market in 2008. This year the harvest was particularly successful, with a record 253 bunches put up at the Friday auction.
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“Sunny weather and high temperatures were right before the harvest, so we were able to harvest sweeter grapes,” said the vice president of the Mitsuo Maruyama growers’ research group.
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Premium fruits regularly reach sky-high prices in Japan, and buyers often use auction winners for advertising purposes. In April, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, a local company paid 2.7 million yen (PLN 91.5 thousand) for two Yubari melons, considered the most expensive fruit in the world.
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