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DOMESTIC WINES. 



From a communication on the subject of domestic wines, by the 

 Hon. Mr. Terrill, of Georgia. 



" I have in Georgia, an acre and a half of Scuppernong grape 

 vines, a single vine has covered an acre, and if not disturbed, one 

 and a half acres. Vines are trained on frames. Mr. Ponce, a neigh- 

 bor, makes wine of these grapes, which resembles Champaigne. No 

 brandy is used in it; it is very pleasant wine. It is said that this 

 grape is named from a creek at Pamlico sound, where a vessel being 

 wrecked, seeds of this grape were washed on shore and there began 

 to grow. A method of making this wine, is pressing out the juice 

 and adding to it apple brandy, about ten per cent; add also a little 

 loaf sugar. We shake the vines so that the ripe grapes fall into 

 sheets spread to catch them. We make wine from a wild grape, 

 which is somewhat like the Muscadine, and of other wild grapes. 

 The odor of the Scuppernong grape is highly agreeable and power- 

 ful, filling large rooms. One gentleman is making very good brandy 

 from grapes, imported stock, as well as native. Some suppose that 

 our Warren grape was originally imported; it is named from War- 

 ren county, Georgia. I think it is a native grape. One of our dif- 

 ficulties with the Scuppernong, is the pruning of it. We must be 

 very careful ; it must be pruned in November, at the fall of its leaves, 

 otherwise it is injured much, if not fatally. The culture of the 

 Warren grape is extended all over our country; it ripens later than 

 the Isabella; we do not like the latter much, in Georgia." 



