A mid-season, red seedless table grape with light muscat flavor. Origin: Fresno, Calif., by David Ramming and Ronald Tarailo, USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, Fresno, Calif. C33-30 × C103-41; cross made in 1989; selected in 1992; tested as A61-16; introd. in 2005; USPP 15,891; 26 July 2005; assigned to the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture. Tree: Fruit: red; ripens with Ruby Seedless; berry oval to elliptical and averages 3.6 g; berries from girdled vines treated with 20 ppm gibberellic acid at berry set average 5.1 g, 19 mm in diameter, and 24 mm in length; flavor is sweet with a light muscat flavor; berries contain one to two aborted seeds that are small and unnoticeable; fruit retains firmness during two months of storage; muscat flavor is retained during eight weeks of storage; cluster is large (1.7 kg), conical with large shoulders, medium to well-filled, and need to be tipped to less than six laterals to make them smaller; pedicel is thinner and has tendency to dry out more rapidly compared to Crimson Seedless.
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