Odd grapes

Some days ago now, BH bought some white grapes from Sainsbury's which, unlike some others that she had been buying recently, we very firm and crisp. But they also had a slightly odd flavour, back taste perhaps.

They came from South Africa and were of a variety called Sugrathiryfive, aka Autumn Crisp, a variety which I think was invented - and effectively patented - by the people at references 1 and 2.

But that did not help with the odd flavour. Clearly something to ask Gemini about, and he responded in his usual way. This in the margins of the conversation about the Cock & Lion, previously noticed at reference 3.

The end of the conversation is snapped above, with the answer seeming to lie in the 'Muscat' description of the grape, quite possibly leading to association with anis. For terpenes, see reference 4, where I notice a connection to marijuana. I also associate to the tannins of recent interest, in connection with the the acorn eating pigs of the Iberian peninsular.

That apart, all too much for me like the conversations that wine buffs go in for: I dare say there is some method there, some science there, but I don't get it at all and, not being up for taking serious trouble, taking quality time, will have to remain content just to drink the stuff. Or eat it, as the case may be.

All of which is not terribly satisfactory: the grapes did taste rather odd. No ill effects though, so it was not a food hygiene problem.

PS 1: to think that this is the same chap who also parades his partiality for cage fighting, to my mind a rather unpleasant variety of boxing, itself bad enough. To think that an awful lot of his fellow citizens would still vote for him tomorrow.

PS 2: then, just the other day, BH bought some red grapes for a change. Entirely satisfactory, but I was slightly surprised to notice that the bunch structure was rather different from that of most of the green grapes - not the ones above - that she had been buying previously. That is to say, not the grapes themselves, rather how they were organised into bunches; maybe the green bunches were more straggly. I can't  put the difference into better words without having bunches of the two sorts in front of me, but I am sure they were different.

References

Reference 1: https://go.sun-world.com/autumncrisp.

Reference 2: https://www.sun-world.com/.

Reference 3: https://psmv6.blogspot.com/2026/04/viols.html.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpene.