高級ぶどう「ルビーロマン」が金沢で初競り、一房100万円　7月17日、石川県の金沢市中央卸売市場で今年最初の競りが行われ、七尾市産の一房に最高値の100万円がついた　100万円は12年連続で、この房は重さ約1キロ・33粒で一粒あたり約3万円　初日は9人の農家が191房を出荷し、今年は天候に恵まれて生育も順調、8月中旬から下旬が出荷のピークとなる見込み

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is July nineteenth. Today's story is a fun one about a very special grape called Ruby Roman, which just sold at auction in Kanazawa for a jaw-dropping price. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down, sentence by sentence.

On July seventeenth, in the city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, the first auction of the year for the luxury grape Ruby Roman was held.

It means an auction, where buyers compete to pay the highest price.

Ruby Roman is a very large, red grape grown in Ishikawa Prefecture. It is also called the red jewel.

It means a jewel or a gem.

Each grape is about the size of a ping-pong ball, and being very sweet is one of its features.

It means sweet.

That day, the highest price went to a bunch grown in Nanao City — one million yen, believe it or not.

It means a price.

This one bunch weighed about one kilogram and had as many as thirty-three large grapes. That works out to about thirty thousand yen per grape.

It means weight.

This is the twelfth year in a row that a Ruby Roman has reached one million yen. The buyer was the owner of a fruit shop in Tokyo.

It means in a row, or one after another.

On the first day, nine farmers brought out one hundred ninety-one bunches. This year the weather has been good, and the grapes are reportedly growing well.

It means a farmer or a farming household.

The farm cooperative hopes to ship about thirty thousand bunches in total this year. The peak of shipping is from around the middle to the end of August.

It means shipping, or sending goods out to market.

Let's listen to the whole story one more time.

Time for a short quiz. Listen and try to answer.

Ishikawa Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast.

One million yen — the twelfth year in a row it reached that mark.

From around the middle to the end of August.

That's all for today. In Kanazawa, the season's first Ruby Roman grapes sold at auction, with the top bunch reaching one million yen for the twelfth year in a row — about thirty thousand yen for a single grape. The weather has been kind, growers hope to ship a record thirty thousand bunches, and the best time to buy them will be in late August. Thanks for listening, and see you tomorrow.