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Article: Indiana Wineries Put The Squeeze on Grapes
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 13, 1992
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NEW ALSACE, Ind. Award-winning Indiana wine made from Hoosier grapes
grown beside the corn and soybean fields?
You bet. Indiana now has 11 wineries, with three more in the
works. It adds up to enough activity that September has been
proclaimed Indiana Wine and Grape Month.
Wines bottled by the 11 Indiana vineyards range from dry to
sweet, and there's even a Hoosier champagne.
Vineyards in Indiana aren't some late-blossoming idea. The
state's wine-growing history began in 1802 at Vevay, a village on the
Ohio River. That's where Swiss immigrant John James Dufour and 17
other farmers planted Indiana's first grape crop.
The initial harvest, in 1806, gave Indiana the distinction of ...
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