Description: Stock printed by Columbian Bank Note Company. Rare Topic! The traditional wines of Michigan were sweet wines, often made from grape varieties native to North America, such as the Catawba, Concord, and Niagara, or from hybrid grapes partly developed by crossing native species with vinifera grapes. North American native grapes have the advantage of being adapted to local growing conditions, with consequent high fruit yield. In addition, growers can switch back and forth between the production of sweet wine and grape juice. Of Michigan's 14,600 acres (5,900ha) under grape cultivation, only 12%, 1,800 acres (730ha), were devoted to wine grapes as of 2007. Michigan's wine industry dates from 1780s, Monroe the birthplace of Michigan wine industry The state's first true wine region was established in Monroe at Frenchtown. The River Raisin flows for almost 139 miles in that area, and there were so many grapes growing naturally along its banks when French settlers arrived in the 1780s that they named it after the sun-dried fruit and were making good wine as many were farmers and many had trading posts. By the mid-1800s, a viable wine industry had been established in Monroe County.The traditional wines of Michigan were sweet wines, Today, there are well over one hundred, as well as 13,700 acres of vineyards. That makes Michigan the fourth largest grape-growing state. Michigans commercial wineries bottle more than 2.7 million gallons of wine annually, making Michigan fifth in wine production, and the vast majority of that production is from Michigan-grown grapes. With large plantings of Concord in the southwest, mostly for the Welch Grape Juice Company, the state was well positioned to enter wine production. Four large wineries (out of eleven wineries established by 1946) came to produce almost all Michigan wine: La Salle Wine and Champagne Company which was established in Windsor, Ontario, and moved to Farmington, Michigan; the Bronte Champagne and Wines Company of Hartford; Michigan Wineries (now Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Price: 232 USD
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
End Time: 2024-11-20T22:12:46.000Z
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