Word: agoston
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...cherry pie, but the tradition is a lot older than the Constitution. French Huguenot settlers fermented juice from Florida's native muscadine grapes as early as 1565. In the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson scoured France for cuttings to replant at Monticello, his Virginia estate. (None took root, alas.) And Count Agoston Haraszthy, the patriarch of California vintners, started his first U.S. vineyard at what is now the Wollersheim winery in Prairie du Sac, Wis., in 1847. During the 19th century, wines from Ohio and Missouri won gold medals in European competitions, but thousands of vine-bearing acres in these and other...
...Spanish missionaries who brought European civilization to the New World also brought European grapes. Before the U.S. was a nation, Franciscan Padre Junipero Serra, founder of nine Spanish missions in California, was making wine in San Diego. After the Gold Rush in 1849, a Hungarian adventurer named Agoston Haraszthy brought 200,000 premium European grapevines to California. In the 1880s an epidemic of the root disease, phylloxera, wiped out nearly all of Europe's vineyards. Thousands of American rootstocks, with their phylloxera-resistant native roots, were shipped over to Europe. Thus most European wine is made from transplanted...
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