PSA: If you haven't tried cotton candy grapes, you are missing out. These crazy-sweet snacks will turn you into that person who eats fruit for dessert—truly! At least for the few months a year they're available in stores. Luckily, that time has come.
Sam's Club is officially carrying the delicious grapes again, though they'll only be in clubs for the next three or so weeks. This batch comes from Divine Flavor, whose growers supply the grapes in May and June. Later this summer and into early fall, Sam's will carry the fruit again via supplies from The Grapery, which grows the candy-like grapes in August and September.
All this is to say that supplies are limited, but summer is definitely the time to buy them, so keep an eye out next time you're shopping at Sam's Club or your local grocery store if you want to try 'em out.
For those wondering, the grapes really do smell and taste like the hand-spun sugar of your childhood. It's wild! They were first spotted in stores in 2015 and are made by cross-breeding different types of grapes to get this juicy, plump variety. Here's how The Grapery explains it:
We achieved the astonishing flavor by working closely with our breeding partner and using all-natural breeding practices. We breed for flavor, continuously experimenting, trying out a wide range of cross-pollination combinations. Frankly, we were stunned when we discovered a new grape that tasted like cotton candy. But, rest assured, it was accomplished by completely natural means. We didn’t apply any “cotton candy flavoring” or plant any sort of flavoring materials into the soil to attain the cotton candy flavor. It was the result of a lot of hard work, innovation and, okay, a bit of good luck.
Yep, we'll be stocking up ASAP.
