Source: Atlas Obscura
As 16th century European explorers landed on the shores of modern-day North Carolina, they continually wrote home about the grapes. In 1584, a British captain described a land “so full of grapes as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them.” The following year, another globetrotter claimed the region contained “grapes of such greatness, yet wild, as France, Spain, nor Italy hath no greater.
” These strangers were captivated by none other than muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia), America’s oldest known species of native grape. And where there are grapes, wine is never far away.On Roanoke Island, the pioneers encountered a variety of muscadines that produced large, round, bronze-green fruit. They came from what is now the oldest known cultivated grape vine…
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