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I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. So, So today I thought we'd talk a little bit about a budding wine region in the US.

I'm talking about Virginia.

So Virginia is a wine region is in fact not so new. Colonists at

Jamestown discovered wild American grape vines in 1607 and documents appear about Jamestown wine in 1609

which means that they were making wine in 1608 and possibly as early as

1607 that's a long time ago. Now the earliest colonial wine that we know of is from

Popham colony, vintage 1607 in modern day Maine and it's possible that the Jamestown residence also made wine in 1607,

but we don't know for sure if it was 07 or 08. But we do know for certain that some of the

USA's earliest wines came from Virginia.

And what did these first wines taste like?

Well, old documents from two Jamestown residents

give us clues.

So Captain John Smith said that the wines reminded him of French British wines, whatever that means,

I'm assuming that it's French wines that were sent to Britain and then people would bottle them there,

the merchant bottling that we're all familiar with.

And then there was an Irish sailor who also lived at Jamestown.

His name was Francis Magnell.

And he spent time in Jamestown and he relayed that the wines reminded him

of Alekante wine, which he was probably referring to wines from

Alecante region in Spain.

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