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Scuppernongs are also mentioned in Charles W. Chesnutt's 1899 collection of short stories The Conjure Woman. They are also mentioned by the name "scupadine" in chapter 6 of Salvage the Bones . "In the Scuppernongs" is the title of a chapter in Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone , the ninth book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.
The first cultivated wine grape in the United States was grown in North Carolina. The first known recorded account of the Scuppernong grape in North Carolina is found in the logbook of explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. He wrote in 1524, "Many vines growing naturally there [in North Carolina] that would no doubt yield excellent wines."
These elongated seedless grapes, also called Sweet Sapphires, were bred by International Fruit Genetics, a California-based fruit breeding and patenting company, and launched in 2004.
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[1] [4] Childress is part of a broader development of wine-grape growing and vineyards in North Carolina which has been gaining traction in the 21st Century, following a period of rapid growth beginning in the 1980s. [2] [5] Grapes are grown locally on the vineyard grounds, at Childress' home estate, as well as purchased from local growers.
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The earliest wine made in what is now the United States was produced between 1562 and 1564 by French Huguenot settlers from Scuppernong grapes at a settlement near Jacksonville, Florida. [5] In the early American colonies of Virginia and the Carolinas , wine-making was an official goal laid out in the founding charters .
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