Our Wakayama Prefecture is a hidden grape-growing region. Believe it or not, Wakayama Prefecture has the potential to offer the world’s most delicious grapes at a level you have never tasted before.

The Best Way to Eat Grapes

Surrounded by nature and bathed in sunlight, you can gently pull up a branch and pick ripe grapes…

Picking grapes on a farm is still the best way to enjoy grapes at their best! Picking the grapes with your own hands and tasting them on the spot offers a unique, luxurious, and enriching experience that fully engages all five senses. In a pleasant breeze, you can peel the grapes in your hands and feel the juice bursting in your mouth, a sensation like no other.

Our Favorite Vineyard in Katsuragi

Wakayama, a fruit paradise, is home to many wonderful vineyards, and today I would like to introduce one of our favorites!

The vineyard is located in Katsuragi Town, which name is “Monno Orchards”.

They grow a variety of fruits here all year round, but I believe the grapes that were in season when we visited in the summer of 2024 were a type of grape called “Kyoho,” which are large and very sweet.

Kyoho grape is native to Japan and is probably not readily available overseas or is sold at a very high price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoho_(grape)

How to Enjoy the Farm

Once you enter the farm, you will find yourself in a grape paradise. The carefully cared for and carefully nurtured grapes are bountifully ripe.

At this farm, tables and chairs are placed here and there under the grape trellises. Guests can place their bags on the tables, relax, and enjoy the sweet and tasty grapes as they wish.

Staff’s Hospitality

The staff is very helpful and friendly.
They carefully teach all the steps to first-time customers, including how to identify ripe and delicious-sweet grapes and how to cut them.

They tell you the farm allows you to remove the protective cover papers to see how ripe and tasty the grapes to be harvested are.

Notes

Here, it is important to note that you should not pick too much more than you can eat at the time. At many farms in Japan, when picking fruit, you only pick what you can eat on the spot, and any uneaten portions are purchased.

You can soak freshly picked grapes in buckets filled with ice and enjoy freshly chilled, super-sweet grapes! (You bring your own ice, and the buckets are available for rent.)

Final Note

Feel free to contact me if you would like to know more about the grape picking experience at this too-good-to-be-true farm or if you need to help making a reservation!

Engaging with Nature to Promote Children’s Growth

This kind of experience leads to a deeper relationship with nature, one of the values we cherish in raising our children. The appreciation of foodstuffs and the nurturing of a heart that values harmony with nature through these experiences are of the utmost value to us. We believe that for children, actually seeing, touching, and learning about where food comes from and where and by what kind of people it is produced is more than just a learning experience.

Tasty Tips

You can get Fresh Tasty Grapes via Rakuten’s Furusato Nozei!

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