Winetasting notes: Muscadine and Mission grape wines
How does this relate to the blog's topic of justice and sustainability? Because growing native grapes is much easier on the planet than growing Euopean grapes here, which need frequest sprays that can kill off beneficial insects and soil organisms, and they need tractor fuel, to apply those sprays, which pollutes the air. I've written a book on Modern (hybrid) grapes and why more grapegrowers should be growing them: Modern Grapes for the Pacific Northwest. I hosted a winetasting that featured Mission wines (see below) and six mostly-award-winning Muscadine wines from a North Carolina winery (made from Noble, Magnolia, and Carlos grapes). My ancestors moved from Scotland to North Carolina and fought the British there in the Rev War, and later they fought the North from Tennessee in the Civil War, and I went to school and met my spouse in Tennessee, and then we lived in Texas, so aside from certain current political issues, I am a South-loving person and I love to ...