Fairy floss-flavoured grapes are coming to Australia

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OK, are you sitting down? Good. We have some important news. Fairy floss-flavoured grapes are real and they're coming to Australia.

Actually, they're already here but won't be available in supermarkets until next year, says Adrian Caia, co-owner of Grape Co. Australia, the Victorian business which has the licence from Californian company Grapery to grow and sell the flossy fruit hybrid locally.

"We had sample volumes last season and February 2016 will mark the arrival of our first commercial crop," Caia says.

Fairy floss grapes aren't the product of a mad fruit professor injecting vines with artificial flavours – they've been created the old-fashioned way by cross-pollination; similar to a tangelo, clementine or lemonade fruit.

Trademarked as Cotton Candy Grapes in the US (fairy floss is an Australian term), the little green fruits have been causing a social media storm in the States over past fortnight. Search Instagram for #cottoncandygrapes and more than 13,000 results are returned.

Most American consumers agree that the grapes actually taste like the much-loved fairground treat. It was a happy accident, too, as Grapery CEO Jim Beagle told the Huffington Post. "We weren't trying to make a grape that tastes like cotton candy, we were trying to make a good grape," Beagle said.

It's easy to write fairy floss grapes off as a marketing gimmick, but if they encourage more children (and adults) to eat fresh fruit, that has to be a good thing, right?

"I think the younger population, once they taste the grape, will definitely chose it over a lolly," says Caia.

Fairy floss grapes are just the start of the a table grape revolution. One new hybrid coming in 2018 is, wait for it, raspberry lemonade-flavoured. "It's probably the best tasting fruit I've ever eaten," Caia says.

Needless to say, we have grape expectations.