Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-10-05
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VnIEGULTURE IN TRx SOUTu

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tht Southern States and were infus6ed 81 him d
~ luptss snadA 80 q, IA the cultivation Of The
1rSpS md the mansfictnrs az wina The grape a.
me6k uaivGAla7 Aaleivated \ the NesthCafolna
gRps-A%hs Cata~sa (sisis LsSrxsea) There are
nv = 0edgis uso hundred acres in the CatawbA
in 41an yjAeyATth Of from ons to twenty-five acsrs
esch, sltsatsd h different localities Mr. Charles
Axk6 Yslafero county, has twenty acres In the
CatawbA and has now in his wine cellar four vint-
~gSs-ahysix, ffty-sevcn, fifty eight and the pres
se& yea' crop just from the press and has exhibited
ntVsrious times at Fairs and elsewhere the hest quail
fty II wine yet manufactured south Of the Ohio,
whsse the famous Longworth's vineyards are 10
cated
NJ. AXIS wine is Of the Hook class Of wines, &C.
cording to European nomenclature, but Of counse
difbeB from any foreign wine tits 'still Catawba"
red wine ermented IN the cask in the cellar, made
for the express purpose several feet under ground
where the temperature remains nearly the same all
the year round He finds ready sale for his vintage
Of ffysix at fifteen dollars per box Of one dozen
bottles each. The ".ftaysI" il now thoroughly
matured, and is an excellent wine, thought by CON-
petent judges to be better than any Of the Ohio
wines yet made. His fifty seven wine il now selling
at Augusta and other places per box for twelve dol
lazs shd thus lower, to the present years vintage
which, without age after it is regularly fermented
and one gear Old he sells at six to eight dollars per
box.
Mr. Redmond, Editor of the Southern Cult;eator,
has collected all the American varieties of grapes,
(about one hundredD and has them now on test at
Vlneland near Augusta, Ga
IN Alabama, Washington county, Mr. Dcnnel.
son, formerly Of Fayetteville, in this State, has sew
eral acres in the Skoupernong (ritis rotundi,olia)
and makes yearly five or six hundred gallons of wine
OF the Sauterne class, . white wine similar to
white claret Of the Medoc country in the South of
EPa fhn Il 50 = -.
log house, made for the purpose, above the ground
without the addition either Of sugar or alcohol The
Skoupernongs are allowed to hang on the vine until
perfectly maturcd, and then gathered by shaking
the canopy, caught Sheets and all done by small
white boys hired in the immediate neighborhood;
the grapes are mashed in large troughs with pestle,
50 n not to break the seed pummace put into COM
mon bassing sacks and pressed out with the lever
beam like the old way of making cider. It would
doubtless be of much better quality if the must was
fermented IN regular wine cellar below ground
Mr.. Donnelson's Sautcrn Skoupernong wine sells
readily in Mobile and New Orleans at ten to twelve
dOllars per dozen.
Mr. Hunter, also. in the same neighborhood makes
annually two or three hundred gallons Of Sloupcr.
nong wine similarly fermented in small cellar un-
der bus dwelling house. He also makes wine from
the Huber grape, and has vineyard of two acres of
the Catawba.
manufactured by the Messrs Keenan, pleasant
sweet wine of the Skoupernong must but with sugar.
ABOUT halfpound, added to the gallon Of must
At Mobile and Chronicle and vicinity, several re-
Gently planted vineyards Of the Catawba are now do
ing finely; and about Montgomery and Northern
Aiaoama Also there are few acres in the Catawba
doing well
In South Carolina, in the vcinage of Akin, there
are more than one hundred acres in the grape. The
lrDDI aglNr IHoCt usr~
40 and Caadeuc, the former il the Oldest vitncr in
the south. Their wines are fern, nted in attic or
lott and are good wines for that mode of fermenta-
ton, (which is certainly Objectionable, the tempera-
tue being too high and fermentation too 5risk) At
AIKEN there are also many others engaged in the
vine culture, and regular club or growing as
soc,atlon established This club meets once = month,
ana subjects german to the grape culture and COL
latteraliy to all fruits are discussed Mr. Macdon-
1!d, above mentioned, is the presiding officer The
Beech-lsland club also meets monthly and all ,eri
cultural products including the grape culture and
wine manufacture, are duly discussed. There are
several vineyards two or three years old in success
!ul growing condition, established in RsrnweN and
Edsefield districts. Messrs Macdonald and Can
deuc cultivate the Catawba, Warren, Pauline and
SkcuPernong grapes, and manufacture wine from
each and receive orders for their Warren grape wine
iaster than IT can be made. It is taken by certain
q IN Charleston, bottled and sold by them
some OF 1t has been sent North and sent abroad Ly
the Charleston wine merchants, and greatly Admired.
though 1t would be far better il kept in cellar until
it is thoroughly matured.
Gov Hammond, Of Redcliff, s. c., has for the past
hve years given much attention to crane cultivation
At the South, and imported two years ago five hun.
ored foreign varieties Of the vine procured from n
uuester Of the Gironde and now has at the Redclif
vineyards 1t least four hundred an6 fifty alive and
growing: Gov. II. has also eight or ten acres in
CataWba and Warren, and has made several hundred
gallons of wine this season, which remains to he
tested to ascertain its qualities He has already
maze some Warren hook, now two or three wears
oid' Of good quality. He is doing as much as anv
other man in the State to encourage the business.
In North-Carolna, while it is the birthplace of ~,
most all the American vines of high excellence crane
mas been retrogradng Atthe head of the Class
sands the Catawba, introduced to the wine pro-
ouS not'ce oy COL Murray some fifty years ago.
and found ty him on the head waters Of the C.t.s'
ba river in Buncombe county, (now McDoxr,I co,,r-
w. grape that has been admitted by Loncvorth
sno Axt to Ike worth, for wine making. far NOR
tnan all others yet introduced. This or,n. ny
been shameflly neglected in its NATIVE
state. There are now. however. in CumberjsnS
county several "public spirited" citizens, Who in.
tsno 70 i've no longer without Catawba wine Of their
owI MAKING and have thirty acres now in the @.
~ = -. S 'Niicy o Fayetteville. Certain Dlsnt.
e!s OF heckIenburg, also, are putting in C;tavh.
Vineyard Of several acres this fall # has been cu
nva.ed by various persons to a small extent for
seve!al years throughout North Carolina but M a.
tsns,ve vineyard Of the catawba grape until the last
Few years, has ever been grown in this St.te n-
Alon Of Atto",h, Stanly county, N. C.. h.s chilli.
eated the Catawbs, and made most exceilent ~;no
!or several years from it but not enough for ernor
'a.'on. d.. Kron received the past winter from NJ
aardy' one hundred and twenty choice v,r;et;e. a.
ssaPe carefully selected from the renowned Luxcm.
oourg Gardens near Paris He has at his Attos,.h
one hundred and sixteen varieties Of them
e LOVING nouIishingiy, and from bei.g we'll attended
~ n.1y Oh them will fruit next yesr. Thew Vere
s;.ec'eo nom the most approved wine e,.2es With
. .ew e administration At the South. d. K v;ii
ts ~ 'nem ana publish and distribute the cntt;n..
lot general cultivation at the South At III. c.riss.
~ There are .mong them, also, some Of the hest
them a. tSe ;. o1e.sns parts Of Europe Most Of
nous Iokays. Jehanhisburgs Burruudies C q.
Pssne -Chsets, Sherries and Made;r.s S;th ALL, W.
S Christie wine grapes Of Mount y.snx;". '
.h .ne been cultivated for mc,s
eve even and vine made from it but IN almost