Seven Grapes, Ranked: The Grape Showdown

Grape is the most-sold disposable flavour in Australia and the most badly done. Done wrong it is “purple” — a colour with a taste attached, syrupy and vague. Done right it is one of at least five distinct drinks: soda, lolly, popsicle, cordial, or actual fruit. Across the four series on our bench there are seven grape-adjacent flavours, and in our 59-flavour blind panel they finished all over the board. This is the deep dive: every grape, same session, ranked with reasons.

The rules

Same as the panel test: labels covered, flavours shuffled, three panellists, scored on accuracy and consistency through the full life of each device. Sweetness is described rather than scored. All seven come from the INGOT 9000, IGET One 12000, IGET Bar Pro 10000 and Dash X 4000 ranges; live pricing for each is in the catalog.

1. Dash X Green Grape — the vine, not the vat

Sweet-tart green grape with a crisp, lightly chilled exhale. The panel’s unanimous comment: this is the only grape in the test that tastes like fruit rather than a product. It also happens to be the panel’s favourite grape of the entire 59-flavour test. If you have ever walked past a grape soda and picked up actual grapes instead, this is your flavour. Note it rides the Dash X’s 3% nicotine and bilingual labelling.

2. INGOT Grape Grapefruit — grape for adults

Candy grape on the inhale, bitter pink-grapefruit peel cutting through the middle, a zesty barely-sugary finish. It is the least sweet and most structural grape here — the one our panellists kept sipping to re-check. The INGOT range’s nineteen flavours lean candy, and this is the grown-up exception. Here.

3. IGET One Grape Ice — the soda, done properly

Sharper than every other purple grape: fizzy candy sweetness with an assertive chill and a heavy menthol snap on the exhale. It reads as grape soda cracking open — which means it tastes like a specific thing, not a vague purple. The highest-ice grape of the three straight Grape Ices, and the one for vapers who want their grape cold enough to bite. Here.

4. INGOT Grape Ice — the lolly-shop classic

Purple lollies rather than wine grapes, with a clean menthol breeze on the exhale that keeps the sugar from getting heavy. It is the most conventional execution of the five straight grapes — nothing wrong with it, nothing surprising in it either. The safe pick if you already know you like classic grape candy. Here.

5. Bar Pro Grape Ice — the popsicle

Mellow, milky grape-candy sweetness with even, smooth cooling — popsicle rather than slushie, gentler than the IGET One’s soda snap. The Bar Pro tunes everything rounder, and grape is where that shows most: pleasant, easy, and the least assertive of the iced grapes. Right for all-day vapers who want grape as background rather than event. Here.

6. IGET One Chupa Chups Grape — sugar, fully committed

Creamy grape-lolly sweetness, rounder and softer than the soda styles, with a warm sugary tail and almost no menthol. It is exactly what the wrapper promises, which is the problem: sweetness is at the top of the scale, and in the panel test every maximum-sweetness flavour polarised hard. If Chupa Chups grape was your childhood lolly of record, you will defend it; if not, it is a lot. Here.

7. Bar Pro Raspberry Grape — honourable variant

Not a pure grape but the grape-adjacent wildcard: a sweet grape base carrying raspberry’s sour bite, deliberately un-iced, with a tart dry exhale. Ranked last as a grape and recommended anyway if your actual brief is “berry-grape blend, no menthol” — it is the only option in the catalogue that answers it. Here.

What the tasting says about buying grape

Three lessons that generalise beyond this lineup. First, the same flavour name means different things per house — three Grape Ices, three different drinks. Pick the register (soda, lolly, popsicle) before you pick the brand. Second, tartness is what separates good grape from purple: the top two here both cut the sweetness, with green apple-style acidity or straight bitterness. Third, ice earns its place in grape specifically: the un-iced entries (Chupa Chups Grape, Raspberry Grape) both faded harder through the back half of the device than the iced three, consistent with the ice-vs-consistency finding from the full panel test.

The complete flavour-level verdicts across all families are in the 59-flavour blind test, and the series-level hardware and cost comparison is in the four-series field test. New to all of this? The first disposable guide starts from zero.