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  • This bunch of grapes just sold for $11,000 in Japan

    07/10/2019 6:50:25 PM PDT · by SMGFan · 29 replies
    CNN ^ | July 10, 2019
    Visitors to a hot spring in central Japan will soon be able to snack on $460 grapes, or rather, grape. That's after the manager of a chain of hot spring hotels in Ishikawa Prefecture, on the northern coast of the main Honshu island, became the winning bidder for a bunch of Ruby Roman grapes at an auction in Kanazawa on Tuesday. Takashi Hosokawa will pay 1.2 million yen, or around $11,000, for the 24 plump, deep red grapes prized for their juiciness, high sugar content and low acidity. It's the most expensive bunch since the breed came to market 12...