Japanese consumers don’t have to hear about the increasing popularity of the Shine Muscat through the grapevine, but can see it in the clusters of yellow-green grapes packing produce sections.

Which is why—one reason, anyway—that first Muscat grape that bursts, its thin, pinkish-yellow skin rupturing easily and spilling juice all over your tongue—is such a surprise. It’s a grape that tastes ...

A grape variety called Shine Muscat is helping to change perceptions that farming isn’t lucrative, say officials in Yamanashi Prefecture. That may explain a surge in new mostly young farmers to ...