Sweet Surrender. Sweet Celebration. Sweet Jubilee. And now, as if the others were not sweet enough, Cotton Candy. Those are the names of some proprietary grape varieties developed by International Fruit Genetics in Bakersfield, CA, grown by The Grapery in Bakersfield, and marketed by Fruit Royale Inc. in Delano.

Partners John Galvan and Louie Galvan of Fruit Royale.The Grapery, one of four California grape growers licensed to grow the IFG varieties. “Jack Pandol [owner of The Grapery] is the grower” of the ones marketed by Fruit Royal, “and he has put in some considerable acreage here in the last couple of years,” said Louie Galvan, a partner in Fruit Royale.

Two of the four varieties — Cotton Candy and Sweet Jubilee — are in their first year of commercial production, he said, “and the fruit looks fantastic. It really does.” Those varieties will be available only in limited quantities this year, but volume will increase significantly next year and the following year.

Overall, Fruit Royale will have a substantial increase in grape volume from the San Joaquin Valley this year.

“We are looking at about a 20 to 30 percent increase across the board with new plantings and increased production,” he said July 10.

All of the acreage increases are from additional plantings by Fruit Royale’s existing growers. They are “the same growers we have had going on six or seven years now,” he said.

“I am currently packing Flames,” and those will continue into August, Mr. Galvan said.

He expected to start Summer Royal black seedless grapes within two days, followed around July 18 by the proprietary Sweet Surrender, a super-sweet elongated black seedless variety harvested at “over 20 Brix. That [grape] is unbelievable!” he said.

Those will be followed by “our Princess green seedless and our Red Globes here about the 23rd of July,” he continued. “Then [we will] get into some Sweet Sunshine green seedless on or about the 31st of July or the first week of August.”

Sometime around the first week in August and “no later than the 10th,” Fruit Royale will start Scarlet Royal red seedless grapes, followed by Cotton Candy and Sweet Jubilee between the 10th and 17th, he said.

The Sweet Jubilees are very large, round, black seeded grapes, similar to Red globes except for color.

“The Cotton Candy is green seedless. Oh, that one is fantastic!” he effused. “I know it sounds like a marketing ply when I say it tastes like cotton candy, but anybody I have told that to,” after actually tasting the grape, “says ‘You are absolutely right.’”