The Kentucky Department of Tourism issued the following news release:
Just six years after becoming a state in 1792, the first vineyard in Kentucky was planted and a new industry took off. By the late 1800s, Kentucky was a leading wine producer in this country.
Prohibition in the 1920s ended the state's wine production. But the Bluegrass State is bouncing back with 46 wineries across the state that have opened in the last 15 years. Ten are growing grapes and have not begun selling wine.
Some of the vineyards are former tobacco farms whose owners are trying a new crop, according to Stacia Alford, grape and wine marketing specialist for the Department of Agriculture.
The Kentucky Grape and ...