Pione (ピオーネ ''pione'') is a large-berried, purple skinned,

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and rosé wine grape variety that has been grown in Japan since 1957.

Table and wine producing grape

First developed in Shizuoka Prefecture by Hideo Ikawa, the grape is a hybrid

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cultivar of the widely planted Kyoho and Cannon Hall Muscat grapes. Kyoho is itself a red fruited hybrid developed in Japan in 1937. The Cannon Hall Muscat is a large white table grape connected to seed originally brought from Greece in 1813, by John Spencer Stanhope resident of

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near Barnsley,

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. Noted for large, generally seedless, purple skinned fruit. Grown in Okayama, Hiroshima, Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures. Ranks third behind Kyoho and

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in terms of total volume of table grape production in Japan. Commands a price premium as a table grape, but also occasionally used to produce rosé single varietal wine.

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{{Reflist Table grape varieties Red wine grape varieties Japanese fruit