Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-05-04
NORTH-CAROLINA WINE.

To-day we conclude the publication Of al article
upon our first page, having been continued through
three numbers upon The Manufacture Of Vino.
The writer of that article is a man Of considerable
ntelligenee-haS travelled much, and has read much
His description. given of the modus operandi OF man
unfacturing wine in France we know TO be correct,
and exhibits the whole to be matter of far more
profit than intricaey CT labor. The vineyard does
not require cultivation as grain cotton &C., the at
tenon of one man being all sufficient for vineyard
of any reasonable size, save at the time of vintage
Thus the cultivation of the grape very little or
nothing, and at the vintage the whole cost OF the
wine is paid 10y argal and other articles made from
the sediments of fermentation, leaving the whole in
come for the sale Of wine made, clear profit
By the spontaneous production of various kinds
of grapes in this State nature has evidenced to us,
in unmistakable terms, the adaptation of orr soil to
this fruit. That the soil and climate of this State
are suited to the growth of the grape is settled
fact which is proven, not by our words or argl-
ment but by observation. Our soil grows as excel
lent, as pure and as finely favored grape as the
world ever saw. We allude to the Scuppernong
grape. From it can be made wine equaling in favor
purity and beauty, any that has been or can be
manufactured in France or elsewhere, and by far
eXcelling the poisonous limitations that overflow
American goblets. Allowing that we take teetote,
moral view of it. we would say STILL that there
not be more healthy harmless, and agreeable drink
or beverage used than such can be produced from
the Scuppernong grape: Let the juice be extracted
in correct, careful and systematic manner bring
ing forth the reai genuine of the grape and
no palate can wish for anything more pleasant; no
stomach, brane Or nervous system can desire any
thing more innocent than it is. Now, with those
two things satisfactorily settled-not by What we
do say, but by each individuals experience, we do
advance the opinion, that there are few or no agr
cultural pursuits now prosecuted WITHIN the limits
of this State that does yield so great profit
as the manufacture Of the pure Scuppernong Wine
We have no doubt but what this article would read
y command two dollars or two dollars and half pc,
bottle, and it would then be cheap, very cheap in
comparison with poisons now sold under the as
stunned name of wine Allowing five barrels as the
product per acre (and more than that is now being
made in some sections Of our county, at thlrty-eigh
gallons per barrel We have, at least eight hundred
bottles (neary quart per botte) which, at two dol
lars per bottle, amounts to the snug little sum
sixteen hundred dollars This is the product of OIL,
acre Of North Carolina land every twelve months
We do not know the exact size of bottles in which
champagne or wine is geaerally put therefore ",
may have made this, in that respect rather liberia
calculation, Lut, if So. the reader easily rectif
the figures. Is not this, then, making our land
pay much greater per centage than they can pos
sibly pay while used in grain erection? The. man
ufcturing of this Scuppernong Wine might be mad
an extensive business by us and, having now pro
posed the thing, we leave it in the hands of GU
agriculturists for their consideration. -Neuber
Daily Delta.