OUR GRAPE VARIETIES

WHITE SEEDLESS

Our Main Varieties

Prime

Prime is an early white seedless grape. The bunches are well filled out and it has oval berries and a good berry size of 18- 22mm. The berries have a thin skin and a muscat flavour when mature. This variety produces high yields.

Sweet GlobeTM

Sweet Globe Mid-season green seedless variety. The bunches have relatively large round to oval berries with a thin skin. This variety produces good yields, requires relatively little labour and has an excellent storage capacity.

Sweet Globe

AUTUMN CRISPTM

Sugrathirtyfive is a late season seedless green grape variety. It has large, round berries with an attractive milky pale green-yellow skin. The flesh is very firm with a high level of dense crispness. Thius variety has a good shelf life.

SUPERIOR SEEDLESSTM

Sugraone is a mid-season white seedless variety with a light muscat flavour when mature. It has large oval shaped, crisp and firm berries and berry sizes are 20-22mm. This variety produces moderate yields and has a good storage capacity.

Thompson Seedless

Thompson Seedless is a traditional variety but is still regarded as the best white seedless variety commercially available. It has a thin skin, crisp outstanding quality and a good sugar: acid ratio. It has elongated berries 17-20mm in size.

IvoryTM

Ivory is a mid-season white seedless variety. The variety has medium-sized, round berries which can vary in colour between clear green and straw yellow. The berry texture is very crisp and the skin offers some slight cracking resistance on biting. Ivory has good sugar levels with a typical brix 18 to 20°, with fairly low acids.  The flavour is a relatively mild sweet neutral. This variety has a good storage performance of up to 8 weeks.

ARRA SweetiesTM

ARRA 15 is a unique and appealing white, seedless variety. It is planted worldwide due to its adaptability to differing climates, exceptional eating quality, berry shape and crunchiness, as well as great shipping performance and long shelf life.  ARRA 15 is very fertile with ideal bunch shape, and incomparable rain resistance and is currently planted in 19 countries. All these characteristics result in its increasing success as an extraordinary and popular white, seedless variety.

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Sundance

Sundance is a variety bred in South Africa and is the latest white seedless grape available in South Africa. It is usually harvested from week 6-8 and has medium sized berries. The berries are firm and crunchy and have a good eating quality.

Early SweetTM

Early Sweet® is a white seedless variety and is the first grape variety of the season to ripen. It is highly productive with a muscat flavour and a good shelf life. The berries are round to oval in shape with a good size of 18 – 22mm.

Regal

This early white seedless variety a South African variety and is as early to mid-season white seedless variety which generally ripens a few days before Thompson’s seedless. Regal has with oval berries which are naturally very large and have a light green in colour. The bunch formation is loose, and the variety has a good shelf life.

RED SEEDLESS

Our Main Varieties

Crimson Seedless

Crimson Seedless is a mid to late season red seedless variety with medium sized, elongated berries. Crimson has crisp and very firm textured berries which have a sweet neutral juicy flavour. The elongated berries (16mm – 18mm) are light pink/red in colour. Particularly impressive is the variety’s exceptional shelf-life.

Sweet CelebrationTM

Sweet Celebration® is a brilliant red mid-season seedless variety with oval-shaped berries. Berries have a naturally large size 25mm with medium sized bunches. The variety is easy to grow, highly productive and colours well with a great flavour.

AllisonTM

Sheegene 20 is a red mid-season seedless variety. Berries are medium to large, from 21 mm and larger. The flavour is sweet neutral and the brix is typically 20°.  The variety is easy to grow, with good productivity and storage ability.

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Flame Seedless

Flame Seedless is the earliest red variety to ripen. It is an attractive variety with medium-large round berries. This is a variety is crisp and juicy with and attractive red colour and the berries are between 18mm – 22mm in size.

SCARLOTTA SEEDLESSTM

SCARLOTTA SEEDLESS is a late season red seedless variety with a striking red colour and ripens later than Crimson Seedless. The berries are oval and elongated with excellent firmness and are 18 – 20mm in size. The flavour is sweet and juicy, and this variety has an excellent storage ability.

Starlight

Starlight is an early season, red seedless variety with excellent red/pink colour. Berries are round, medium sized (18 – 20mm) sweet and crunchy.

Tawny Seedless

Tawny Seedless is an early season red seedless variety with large, rounded berries. The berries are firm fruit and have a good flavour. Tawny is characterized by its strong plant growth vigour, high fertility, high resistance to rain and exceptional post-harvest shelf life.

TimcoTM

Timco is a mid to late seedless red seedless variety and ripens just before Crimson. This variety produces a good yield of big, uniform berries (20-22mm) with a great flavour. It is more productive than Crimson and has an excellent storage performance.

Joybells

Joybells is an early red seedless variety with a deep crimson colour and distinctive bell-shaped berries. The firm flesh has a mild, sweet flavour. This is a high yielding grape that colours well naturally. The berry size is 19 – 22mm.

ARRA PASSION FIRE™

ARRA 29 is an early red seedless variety with exceptional eating quality. It has large, crisp berries, a medium sized bunch and an excellent natural, cherry color. Ripening at the same time as Flame, it is considered the best Flame replacement. The extraordinary shelf life and shipping durability makes it the growers’ preferable early red.

Krissy™

Sheegene 12 is a mid-season red seedless variety. The berries are large to extra large, from 22mm and larger. This variety has an intense fruity flavour with good sugar levels and a typical brix of 20°. Krissy has a good storage potential of up to 8 weeks.

Jack’s Salute™

IFG Nine is an mid to late season red seedless variety. It has oval to elongated berries and colours well.  The berries naturally large, firm and crispy and have a good flavour.

ARRA PASSION STAR™

ARRA 13 is an extremely fertile variety which produces large, meaty, juicy fruit, characterized by elliptic, flavorsome berries. It is self-colouring, and very cost effective to grow.

Ralli

Ralli Seedless is an early season red seedless, pale pink to red in colour. This variety has elliptical, large berries between 20-22 mm.  The berries have firm flesh and a neutral to mild muscat flavour. Ralli Seedless stores very well.

Evans Delight

Evans Delight is an attractive early-mid season, dark red seedless variety with good colour, berry size of around 20mm and yield. It has a unique sweet taste.

BLACK SEEDLESS

Our Main Varieties

Sweet JoyTM

Sweet Joy is a striking mid-season black seedless variety.  This variety has fully black elongated oval berries. The vines are very fertile, and the variety has a good shelf life.

Sweet SapphireTM

Sweet Sapphire is a mid-season black seedless characterised by its highly unusual shape. It has elongated tubular berries with dimpled end. The berries are crisp and 20 mm wide and up to 35 mm long. This fully black variety has a good fully black colour and a good, juicy flavour. It has a good shelf life.

MelodyTM

This is a superb black seedless variety which ripens just before Autumn Royal. Its full black colour is achieved naturally. Melody is highly productive and has large berries (22mm) with a good flavour. This variety has an excellent storage capacity.

SABLE SEEDLESSTM

Sable seedless is a mid-season black seedless variety. The berries have a deep black colour and are oval berries with a firm, crunchy texture. Sable is distinct due to its unique exotic taste. This is described as an intense rich sweetness with distinct muscat overtones and tropical aroma.

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Autumn Royal

Autumn Royal is a midseason black seedless cultivar. The firm and generally seedless Autumn Royal berries are oval- shaped and about an inch long. Their black or purple-black skin has a whitish cast or bloom. Inside, the flesh is an attractive, translucent yellow-green. The berries are crunchy and tasty.

MIDNIGHT BEAUTYTM

MIDNIGHT BEAUTY is an early season black seedless variety. It has large elongated black berry with excellent firmness. This variety has a sweet, juicy neutral flavour and low acidity. It has a good storage capacity.

ADORATM

Sugra34 is a late season seedless black variety characterised by its giant, firm oval berries. The berries are sweet and juicy with neutral flavor and low acidity. Sugra34 has an excellent storage capacity.

ARRA MYSTIC BLOOMTM

ARRA 14 is an early season black seedless variety.  The variety has very good eating quality, and is economical to produce. ARRA 14 produces very well and has an excellent shelf life and arrives successfully to the market after long transit time.

RED SEEDED

Red Globe

Red Globe is a mid-season red seeded variety with an attractive light pink colour. It produces good yields and requires minimal labour inputs for production. Red Globe has very large round berries with sizes 24 – 28mm.

BLACK SEEDED

There is still some demand for:

Alphonse Lavallee
Barlinka
La Rochelle