Georgia has a few state foods. The peach, we all know, is the official state fruit, and the Vidalia onion is the official state vegetable. On Friday, January 1, we will also have a state grape. When ...

Want to grow grapes in the South? If so, you have two choices: Plant muscadines, or plant another type of grape and watch the vines die. Table, wine and concord type grapes rarely live for more than a ...

Florida is home to several native grape species that belong to the genus Vitis. The most common and famous native grape is Vitis rotundifolia, also known as the muscadine grape. Muscadine grapes are ...

Grapes are one of the oldest and most extensively cultivated food crops in the world. The earliest archaeological evidence of the domesticated grape comes from an area between the Black Sea and Iran.

I keep hearing about people making wine from Muscadine grapes. What is the story on these leathery skinned grapes? Can you really make decent wine with these fruit? The south is the home of phylloxera ...

When I see the ripened bronze color of Muscadine grapes in late summer here in the Cape Fear region, I am generally indulging in a great snack. Beware the seeds, but the juicy, sweet flesh makes me ...