Move aside, $6,200 melon: a single bunch of grapes sold for ¥1 million ($8,200) at a wholesale auction Thursday in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture.

The selling price for the Ruby Roman grapes, grown in the prefecture on the west coast of Japan, was almost double last year's record-breaking price of ¥550,000--also for the same type of grape. The bunch that sold contained 26 grapes, meaning a single grape was worth about ¥38,000 ($315). It weighed about 700 grams (1.5 pounds).

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