Carlos
Noble
Hunt
Fry
Bronze; Fruit are small to medium in size, ripen early to mid season, produce in clusters, ripens very evenly, and is a very heavy producer. A good Bronze variety for wine making.
Black; fruit are small in size, very large clusters and ripen mid season. Noble is easily juiced making it a great choice for wine or juice.
Black; Fruit size is medium to large with large clusters. The quality is excellent and ripens early. Hunt is the variety most other varieties are compared to, and is still one of the best all purpose varieties. It is excellent for wine, unfermented juice, jelly, and hull preserves.
Bronze; fruit are small; skin, medium; flavor pleasing. Fry is the most popular muscadine grape cultivar. It produces a very large, bronze grape that is great for wine or juice.
Our Vineyard grapes
The Muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolis) is a species of native North American vines first discovered by European explorers of the Southeastern United States. The earliest written account of the "White Grape," as it was called by our colonist, occurs in Giovanni de Verrazzano's logbook. Verrazzano, the Florentine navigator, who explored the Cape Fear River Valley for France in 1524, wrote that he saw "...Many vines growing naturally there...Grapes of such greatness, yet wild, as France, Spain, nor Italy hath no greater."
The oldest and most popular cultivated variety 'Scuppernong' was named for the Scuppernong River in northeastern NC. With time, the name scuppernong became generic with all bronze muscadines, regardless of actual variety name. However, this is incorrect nomenclature, since 'Scuppernong' is only one of many cultivars of muscadine grapes. Bullis and its variants (bullace, bullet grape, bull grape) are very old names for dark-fruited muscadines.
Nearly 100 years of breeding work has resulted in the release of many improved cultivars. On our vines you will find 'Carlos', 'Fry', 'Noble', and 'Hunt'. They are some of the most important cultivated varieties.
