Desert types are by far the most appropriate of these; popular grapes are Muscat of Alexandria and Black Hamburg, and generally speaking, you should select vines that yield fruit near the stem.

A grape variety called Shine Muscat is helping to change perceptions that farming isn’t lucrative, say officials in Yamanashi Prefecture. That may explain a surge in new mostly young farmers to ...

Japanese consumers don’t have to hear about the increasing popularity of the Shine Muscat through the grapevine, but can see it in the clusters of yellow-green grapes packing produce sections.