Stars of Early American Winemaking: Where Are They Now?

by Talia Baiocchi Jun 6, 2011, 11:40am EDT

Norton vines on the hang in Missouri. [Source: wine industry]
The famed Concord bottling of Manischewitz, on the left.
Roanoke Island's 400-year-old Scuppernong vine trained by the Englishmen that washed up there in the late 1500s.(Source: Southwynde.com)
raise for the Scuppernong grape in the Pensicola, FL Gazette, 1878. The grape variety first cultivated in Florida by French Huguenot settlers in the 1500s.
Virginia Dare, America's most purchased wine in the 1900s.
Ohio's E & K Wine Co. Catawba label, mid 1800s. (Source: E & K Wine Company).
Present day Catawba grapes.

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