Explore the ARRA white seedless table grape varieties, renowned for their refreshing sweetness, crunchy texture, and appealing appearance. From very early to late-season harvests, these varieties provide a steady supply of high-quality grapes for global markets.
Built on robust genetics, ARRA white varieties exhibit high fertility and adaptability, thriving in diverse climates. With exceptional resilience, they can withstand challenging conditions, including heavy rainfall and extreme heat. Among the standout traits of ARRA white varieties are their signature Muscat flavor, delicate sugar-acid balance, and thin dissolving skin—distinct advantages that contribute to an exceptional eating experience.
The ARRA white varieties offer a winning combination of grower-friendly traits and consumer appeal. With uniform berry size, strong fertility, and noteworthy shelf life, ARRA white varieties deliver consistency and reliability across the supply chain, ensuring quality, sustainability, and market demand.
Early Sweet is the earliest commercial, seedless, white variety worldwide. Well known for its very high fertility, excellent eating quality and attractive creamy color. Due to its durability in cold storage and transit it reaches the markets unblemished.
ARRA Sweeties is a distinctive and highly desirable white grape variety, renowned for its exceptional eating quality due to a combination of unique sugar-acid balance, thin dissolving skin and intense crunchiness. With its adaptability to diverse climates and proven ability to withstand rainy conditions, this versatile variety has become a favoured choice among growers in 24 countries worldwide. Not only does ARRA Sweeties boast excellent shipping performance and a long shelf life, but it also features an attractive elongated berry shape, ideal bunch structure and outstanding fertility.
ARRA Sugar Drop is an early white, fertile variety, characterized by very large, naturally loose bunches. It is known for its appealing, elongated, light creamy colour berries that are delightfully crunchy and sweet, in a thin skin that seamlessly melts away. The variety holds up well on the vine and is also suitable for the production of DOV (dry on vine) jumbo raisins. Over time, they reach an outstanding delicious sweetness, with a juicy, tender texture, in a soft, delicate skin.
The earliest new generation white variety in the world, ARRA Honey Pop bears outstanding eating quality, with extreme crunchiness and a hint of Muscat flavour. Due to its short cycle, fast sugar accumulation and uniformity this is an ideal choice for anyone seeking the ultimate very early white. ARRA Honey Pop is very fertile, truly grower friendly with exceptional shelf life and storage capabilities.
ARRA Yum!bo is clearly Yummy and Jumbo! It draws attention due to its unique XXXL berry size, shiny green colour and fresh eating quality. The variety’s fertility, ease of growing and rain tolerance are together also a huge advantage. It ripens between ARRA Sugar Drop and ARRA Sweeties, thereby ensuring the continuous, at least 2 months long, sequence of white, elongated, thin skinned ARRA varieties. Additionally, the ARRA Yum!bo is suitable for the production of golden jumbo raisins that are sweet and fruity in flavour, meaty and tender in texture.
With ARRA Sunny Pop every bunch on the vine is a bunch in the box, this is a result of the extremely uniform berry size development, both in and between the bunches. This uniformity makes it easier for growers to deliver a consistent true-to-type, beautiful product to the markets. ARRA Sunny Pop is a robust variety that produces a consistently high yield year after year. The sweet, firm berries have a crunchy texture with a subtle enjoyable flavour, that are all wrapped in an almost unreal dazzling green ovoid grape. The variety has excellent storage capacity and remarkable shelf life as well as impressive hanging ability allowing for harvest flexibility.
Discover the unique ARRA Sweetie Pop, an early-season white variety that redefines the grape eating experience with its distinctive Muscat flavor profile. Currently thriving in Brazil, ARRA Sweetie Pop offers a delightful pop of sweetness and aromatic notes. It is highly fertile and rain-tolerant, consistently produces next-level fruit.
Several ARRA white grape varieties offer a Muscat flavor, each with unique characteristics suited for different growing conditions and market demands.
ARRA Honey Pop™ is the most well-known, featuring a light Muscat aroma with a delicate sweetness, producing oblong berries that are crunchy and ideal for early market availability.
Another option is the new ARRA Sweetie Pop™, with its distinctive Muscat flavor, hint of sweetness and aromatic notes.
These ARRA grapes not only capture the Muscat-like flavor profile but also provide the benefits of, better shelf life and reduced labor needs, making them a sustainable choice for growers.
The ARRA Honey Pop™ grape variety is both grower- and environmentally friendly due to its efficiency, sustainability, and minimal resource requirements. It naturally produces large, uniform berries with minimal need for growth regulators or manual thinning, reducing labor costs for growers.
With its early ripening cycle, farmers can harvest sooner, minimizing weather-related risks and optimizing resource management. Additionally, ARRA Honey Pop™ is bred for improved disease resistance, reducing the need for chemical treatments such as fungicides and pesticides. Its lower water consumption makes it a sustainable choice, particularly in regions with limited water availability. The variety is also highly productive, ensuring consistent yields while minimizing waste. Its adaptability to various climates further enhances its sustainability, as it requires fewer intensive environmental controls.
These qualities make ARRA Honey Pop™ an ideal choice for growers seeking a high-quality, low-maintenance grape variety with a reduced environmental footprint.
The ARRA varieties, in particular, stand out for their short production cycles, enabling early harvests and greater economic efficiency. This translates into reduced labor, decreased irrigation needs, and minimized pesticide use, all of which enhance environmental sustainability and grower-friendliness, while maintaining high yields and a prolonged shelf life.
The Crush Everyone’s talking about!
Tony Calvillo, Vice President of International Business Development, Dayka & Hackett LLC, shared: “Today, we visited the ARRA Cherry Crush—a grape variety that exceeds the expectations of growers, consumers, and retailers alike. We are thrilled to witness its remarkable potential. Boasting an alluring cherry colour, impressive size, abundant production, and a perfect balance of taste and crunch, ARRA Cherry Crush creates a mutually beneficial scenario for discerning producers, consumers, and retailers.”
Igniting the senses
Just in time for the festive season, the inaugural batch of ARRA Fire Crunch™ made its way from Peru to the USA. Karl Conrads, founder, CEO of Grapasa accompanied the first year vines from budbreak all the way to Walmart facilities in Los Angeles.
Don’t miss the footage, showing this landmark arrival, now the sky’s the limit.
Sharing the passion – Right now in Southern Africa:
“It’s a great, beautiful grape, we are having a great time packing it.” shares Gabriel Viljoen of G.P. Viljoen Farming
We’ve heard other growers excited about this year’s performance.
“The ARRA Passion Fire was probably the most beautiful red grapes around on our farms.”
Start the season with a Kiss
This year, attendees got a firsthand look at ARRA Fire Kiss™ in Egypt. What stood out was how distinctly different it was from the Flame, leaving no doubt that it is the perfect Flame replacement.