Virginia Dare

Here’s one for Paul B- Virginia Dare.
http://www.weekendwinery.com/wineryinsi ... _Nov04.htm

Salute

I have a few of the old 1-gal. glass jugs embossed with the Garrett name and grape decorations. They're being used as originally intended for wine, although they don't see any scuppernong.

I have a few of the old 1-gal. glass jugs embossed with the Garrett name and grape decorations. They're being used as originally intended for wine, although they don't see any scuppernong.

I have one of the 25-3/5 oz. bottles sitting on the kitchen counter filled with a variety of beans. It doesn't show off the name and decorations very well, but it's all fun...no?
BP

Is it true that "Virginia Dare" is the oldest wine brand in the US?

I can vaguely remember a Virginia Dare ad about one easy wine lesson -- "You can't hurry a grape!" -- with cartoon figures. It's amazing how these old ads stick in memory.

[Or maybe I dreamed it?]

Regards, Bob

Victor, thanks for the article.

It seems that Prohibition really did a number on the nascent American wine culture in so many areas. I often wonder what course things might have taken, and what the timeline of vineyard and winery development in the East especially would have looked like had "the scourge" never happened.

Well thankfully, folks are now awakening to an increasingly bright new future for home-grown American wines - wines that have true local connections, made with grapes that actually fit the terroir and aren't constantly killed off by it. Things are changing positively in that regard, though the whole mess of interstate wine commerce is a major hangover that doesn't seem to be going anywhere fast.

nice article; except that i think that what killed longworth's vineyards near cincinatti was oidium not phyloxera. don't think that could have happened since he wasn't - contrary to the articles apparent assumption - growing vinifera.