Fruit and Vegetables: Grapes■Variety

Shine Muscat■Introduction
These grapes are sweet with an elegant fragrance, and canbe eaten whole with the skin. Numazawa Orchard has won
numerous awards at competitive exhibitions. We delivergrapes that have been carefully chosen based on their color,shape, taste, and various other criteria.

■Characteristics■Recommended way of eating them

These grapes are sweet with an elegant fragrance, and canbe eaten whole with the skin.
Numazawa Orchard has won numerous awards atcompetitive exhibitions. We deliver grapes that have been
carefully chosen based on their color, shape, taste, andvarious other criteria.
The Okitama area of Yamagata Prefecture is blessed withwell-drained slopes, temperature extremes between nightand day, little rain in summer and other ideal conditions,
resulting in the production of Shine Muscat grapes with goodcolor.

- Chilling the grapes in a refrigerator is one of therecommendable ways of eating them. This is popular amongchildren.
- The grapes can be washed and eaten whole with the skin.
- Use them as topping on cakes, or eat them mixed with otherfruit.

■Packaging■Best eaten
Early September to early October■Export season
Early September to late September■Exported toHong Kong

Care taken to:Prevent damage to the fruit■Movie of production and shipment processes
Scan the QR code to enjoy
watching a movie of a trip toan orchard in the growing
region of Nanyo City in
Yamagata Prefecture.

Fruit and Vegetables: Grapes■Name of producer

RINGBELL CO., LTD.
■Address
3-13-6 Nihoｍbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0027■Contact information
Phone:
E-MAIL:URL:+81-3-3246-1122
https://www.ringbell.co.jp/■Export system and facilities
Plans to consider the development of packaging material,including cushioning, as a measure against berry shatter. Asalways, we will be paying direct visits to producers inbolstering efforts to supervise packaging.

■Overseas PR activities
Shine Muscat is an extremely popular variety, and there isdemand in Hong Kong for Shine Muscat grapes grown inYamagata Prefecture due to the harvesting season coinciding
with the Mid-Autumn Festival.
As with peaches, they are packed into baskets making
suitable corporate gifts during the Mid-Autumn Festival season,and there is great demand for them.

■The characteristics and strengths of producers(the growing region)
Production amounts are decreasing for many varieties due to thedifficulty of managing their cultivation, but Numazawa Orchard
grows grapes centered on the rich and sweet Takao variety.
The Okitama area of Yamagata Prefecture is blessed with welldrained slopes, temperature extremes between night and day,little rain in summer and other ideal conditions, resulting in theproduction of Shine Muscat grapes with good color.

■Information on production and export quantities
Area planted with variety

30 aProduction quantityAround 4 t

Quantity available for export(annually)
Quantity available for export(per export)

Undecided
Undecided

Minimum quantity available forexport

10 MOQ outer boxes (containing 2 packs)
for total of 20 packs.
Orders received from Hong Kong areconsolidated and sent to arrive before theMid-Autumn Festival.

Total export quantity per region

0.01 t■Patents and certifications
PatentsNone

GI certification

None

Various other certifications

None