ISSUE 58, GRAPES, LENOIR
Lenoir [Black Spanish]
A natural cross between an Vitis borquiniana and a Vitis vinifera found in the American southeast, the Lenoir was named after the Statesburg, South Carolina agriculturalist Isaac Lenoir by Nicholas Herbemont. Herbemont, appreciating its resistance to Pierce's disease and the quality of the red wine made from the small, purple-blac…