Karsten has long-standing partnerships with globally renowned growers to supply customers with high-quality grapes from December through to July. We maintain close relationships with all major breeders — including Bloom, Grapa, and Sun World — to plant new varieties that support sustainable production while meeting our customers’ preferences.
Our leading varietal strategy ensures consistency throughout the supply period. We invest in reducing gaps in availability and protecting quality at the seasonal shoulders. Being grower-led puts us at the forefront of varietal innovation, giving us a competitive edge. We handle, pack, and distribute from our grape-dedicated facilities based in Newport, delivering directly to our customers.
Brazil Grape Supply
We source our grapes from the São Francisco Valley in northeast Brazil. Thanks to the region’s ideal environmental conditions, it is possible to achieve up to 2.5 harvests per year.
A total of 210 hectares are currently in production, planted with patented, customer-preferred varieties. We also have a long-term varietal development programme in place to increase production in the coming years.
All grapes are produced and packed in a 300,000m² state-of-the-art facility, which includes 3,500m² of cooled storage. The site is fully accredited by globally recognised certification bodies.
Peru Grape Supply
We have established partnerships in Piura, Northern Peru as well as Ica, Southern Peru operating across more than 2,000 hectares since 2021.
Production is focused on patented, customer-preferred varieties from Sun World and Bloom (IFG and SNFL).
All grapes are grown sustainably, in line with long-term environmental strategies already in place.
Chile Grape Supply
Our growers are located across various regions of Chile, allowing us to supply consistent volumes from the start to the end of the season.
Our growers adopted protected varieties to produce the highest-quality fruit while meeting modern food safety standards. These varieties also help address environmental challenges, such as reducing water usage and implementing low-residue programmes.
Indian Grape Supply
Our growers hold the exclusive licence to grow and market new grape varieties in India from international breeder, Grapa™.
We work with a co-operative of over 1,000 farmers, located 120 km northwest of Nashik, Maharashtra. Here, both new and traditional varieties thrive, alongside a testbed of emerging white, red, and black grape varieties.
In addition to the scale of production, we operate from the world’s leading purpose-built grape packing facility, offering end-to-end traceability on every punnet. This ensures complete transparency for our customers.
Egypt Grape Supply
Our grower partner is one of the most forward thinking and fastest growing producers in Egypt. Through targeted investments, including new plantations and packhouse’s we can offer the best quality grapes and citrus from the Wadi el Natron area.
New grape varieties from IFG, Bloom and Sunworld are now in production enabling to offer customer preferred varieties, focussing in particular on the latter part of the season.
South African Grape Supply
Our grape season starts in Namibia from our newly owned farm, producing grapes across 400 hectares offering customers early season fruit harvesting in November.
The Lower Orange River region is considered to be South Africa’s most important early grape growing region. It is home to several farms located over a distance of more than 300 kilometers and produces the finest table grapes.
Our table grape farms in the Western Cape comprise of two farms in the Piketberg area and two farms in the Hex River Valley and Robertson areas, which allows us to effortlessly supply seedless grapes throughout the South African table grape season.