It’s vine time as muscadines and scuppernongs are ripening now. These sour-skinned, but spicy-sweet on the inside native grapes, often referred to as the “Grapes of the South,” are like rutabagas and ...

Scuppernong grapes, that old Tidewater favorite, are ripening on the vines. Sweeter than sugar, these grapes are used in scuppernong wine by old-timers and to make jams and jellies. Others love to ...

Even Harper Lee even wrote about scuppernong grapes. So what exactly are they? Fact checked by Jillian Dara Scupper-what? Repeat after me: "Scup-per-nong." Don't forget that final "n"—the word rhymes ...

Scuppernong season is coming, and I’m looking forward to picking some grapes. For the last couple of years, I was unable to pick at Lake Apshawa Farm & Nursery, the Clermont vinery where I usually ...

For the supporters of the muscadine grape juice bill, it would do a bunch of things: It would promote the Scuppernong grape, which is a kind of muscadine grape, and is the North Carolina state fruit.

Fourth in a series aboutNorth Florida foods. No North Florida food has a more colorful name than the scuppernong grape — nor requires more nuance to enjoy. A very firm green or bronze grape, the ...

Scuppernong wines get a bad rap. And that’s if you’ve heard of them at all. The humble scuppernong grape nonetheless has noble lineage in the South. It’s the oldest native grape cultivated in America ...

This fall, I decided to make wine from my mother-in-law’s backyard scuppernong grape vines. The green-and-gold orbs, a relative of the muscadine, and native to the American South, have tough ...

North Carolina students could soon be learning about, and tasting, a bit of the state's agricultural history if legislators in Raleigh pass a recently introduced House bill. The legislation would see ...

Q: What is the difference between a scuppernong grape and a muscadine grape? Will both types grow here? Answer: There is quite a bit of confusion about the difference between the Scuppernong and the ...

All of North Carolina’s public schools, colleges and universities would have to offer students muscadine grape juice under a bill that has advanced to the N.C. House chamber. The question is can you ...