Black grape
Vitis vinifera · Fruit
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Black grape is the trade name for the family of large, firm, mostly seedless blue-black dessert grapes — cultivars such as Autumn Royal, Black Beauty, Sweet Sapphire and Midnight Beauty — bred for crisp skin, deep colour and a clean, plump sweetness rather than for wine. They are the dark counterpart to the green Thompson and red Crimson grapes that share the supermarket shelf.
Picking a good onedrag
Picked early, sharp and hardWrinkled, shedding, winey
Full colour, firmBuy itGood for snacking, salads or freezing whole, with two to three weeks left in the fridge.
ColourFull, even colour for the variety
FleshFirm and plump, springs back
The stemGreen and pliable, nothing drops
SmellClean, faintly sweet at the bag
These cues are Grape's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
96%
Edible part
4.9 g · stems off
5.1 g
Weight each
each one
65%
Juice
about 650 ml a kilo
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 5× longer than the counter.
90-95%
Humidity
Vented bag, gentle air
Airflow