Virginia’s Vintage
The plentiful grape vines in the New World raised hopes of a profitable wine making industry. Native and imported varieties produced a drinkable vintage, but the wine often spoiled during shipment to England. The venture failed.
A local market did exist, especially since drinking water was brackish. Large finds of wine bottle fragments, as well as several cooling pits or cellars, mark the sites of Jamestown stores or taverns.
Wealthier colonists also consumed wine from Europe, their stock marketed with personalized seals.
Marker is on Loop Drive, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
