Earlier this week while assisting a resident just south of Lufkin, I noticed a wild grapevine with numerous clusters of small ...

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Muscadine wine is made with a specific type of grape that’s native to the Southeast U.S. The deep purple and bronze-toned grapes that make muscadine wine are native to North Carolina.

With support from a $7 million grant, grape breeders in Arkansas are working to create a hybrid from two grape species alongside a team from across the nation. Credit: U of A Division of ...

Muscadine grapes on the vine. Credit: University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture The Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas won a $7 million competitive grant from the United ...

The muscadine does not look like a traditional table grape. It’s large with thick skin. “It’s very low input if you want to put a grapevine in the back yard.

As many as 14 types of grape vines show up entwined along fences, up trees and woody brush, and alongside human-made structures, including mustang, winter and muscadine.

Although there are many muscadine wine lovers in the South, these wines are sometimes deemed less sophisticated by the wine industry at large. “People do look down on native grapes,” says Cox.

Muscadine grapes are native to North Carolina and the southeastern United States. The first cultivated variety of muscadine was a bronze selection, discovered in Tyrrell County, N.C., in 1760 and ...