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.

Two new varieties of muscadine not only promise a longer growing season but also recall two Arkansas icons, both names ...

Muscadines are much more prolific, potentially yielding eight times more than other types of grapes, according to Muscadine Naturals. Typically, muscadine grapes in the wild bear dark fruit with ...

My grandfather made muscadine wine in the cellar in oversized glass jars — for medicinal purposes, of course. His wine was cloudy, unfiltered, and quite sweet. Several years ago, we found a ...

Alabama is one of the lesser-known wine regions in the US, but its family run vineyards make for a heartwarming trail across ...

Then there are the health benefits of muscadine grapes, also known as scuppernongs in many parts of the South. Legislators adopted the scuppernong as North Carolina's official state fruit in 2001.

Once we pick the muscadines off the vine, there's a process of kind of separating the pulp from the skins, because there's a seed inside that muscadine grape, so we've got to kind of get that out.

Because muscadine grapes produce less sugars than other varieties, Burgess adds sugar in a process called chaptalization. The resulting wines then have a sugar content between 2 percent and 4 percent.

Muscadine grapes, commonly used to make wine, have a unique polyphenolic profile compared to other red wine varieties, making them a subject of interest for this study. Previous clinical trials ...

MSU Muscadine Field Day to be held Aug. 28 By Bonnie Coblentz MSU Extension Service CARRIERE, Miss. -- Anyone growing muscadine grapes or interested in learning more about this fruit crop is invited ...