What made y’all decide to plant a Norton grape?
BH: The dry wine drinkers coming by here, and we didn’t have anything dry enough for them, so—. We wanted to grow it; we didn’t want to buy it. So it was really the only variety that we could grow in this hot, humid weather down here. Plus, you know, you’ve heard of Pierce’s Disease, haven’t you? Yeah, it kills anything that’s European or vinifera and so—. We do buy some Chardonnay from the western part of North Carolina because we can’t grow that here, and you’ve got to have a Chardonnay in your wine room. You know, everybody wants it, so those are the only two non-Muscadine wines we have besides—we do a blueberry, a blackberry, and a strawberry, which people like that, too, they really do. —– So what has, in a bigger sense, being employers and being a little industry here in Pine Level, what has that meant to the community for y’all to be here and grow as much as you have? BH: Well when we first told them we were going to do this, we met with some trouble. They didn’t want to let
