Deep Roots and High Stakes

A Short History of Wine and Winemaking in Albemarle County and Charlottesville

Russow, Haage and Reirson of the Monticello Wine Company, ca. 1880

By Arthur and Gayle Schulman, Ellie Montague, and Jane Myers for an exhibit at the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society in 2004

Edited and adapted for the web by Douglas Day in 2005

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Table of Contents

• Beginnings (Introduction)

• Thomas Jefferson and Filippo Mazzei

• Antebellum Scientific Viticulturist: John Patten Emmet

• "Enemies of the Vine" and Hybrid Experimentation (under construction)

• Post- Civil War Pioneers: William Hotopp and William Ward Minor

• Local Victorian-Era Advocates of Modern Viticulture: Henry Minor Magruder, Albert Holliday and Dr. Charles Hedges

• William Bradford Alwood, "The Savior of Virginia Agriculture"

• Adolph Russow and the Monticello Wine Company

• Saloons, "Local Option" and the Coming of Prohibition

• Piedmont Apple Products (Fruit Wine) and Home Recipes (under construction)

• Bernard Chamberlain and the Monticello Grape Growers Cooperative Association (under construction)

• The Revitalization of Wine in Jefferson's Albemarle: Chris Martin, Gabriele Rousse, Felicia Rogan and the Jefferson Wine Grape Growers Society (under construction)