Pioneering American Wine: Writings of Nicholas Herbemont, Master Viticulturist

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Index “Address to the President and Members of the United Agricultural Society” (Herbemont), 261–67 Adlum, John, 1, 6, 12, 14–15, 124, 127, 149, 154, 167; Memoir on the Cultivation of the Vine, 6, 282 African Americans, 16–17, 251–60, 275–79. See also Slavery Agrarian ethics, 3–4, 15–18, 20–21, 261–67, 268–74 Agricultors. See Farmers Agricultural reform, 2–4; resistance of planters to, 8; in the South, 3, 8, 15–16 Agricultural societies, 150, 182, 264–66, 281–82 Agricultural Society of South Carolina, 2, 4, 109, 130–34, 167–71, 267, 281. See also South Carolina Agricultural Society Alabama, 144, 183 Alcohol content, of wine, 1, 184–85 American Farmer, 86, 109, 113, 124, 131, 144, 172, 183, 195, 227; begins publication , 109; changes editors, 141; essay contest in, 268; Herbemont corrects articles in, 117, 119; Herbemont’s Madeira in, 201–2; Herbemont’s regular contributions to, 14–15, 283; McCall writes for, 117, 124; publishes on viticulture , 1; reprints Herbemont’s tract, 252 American Gardener, 49–50 American Vine-Dresser’s Guide, The (Dufour), 6, 12, 68–71, 80, 192n4, 282 Amerine, Maynard, 11 Animals, 123, 251, 256–57, 260, 264, 273 Areometer. See Beume’s areometer Armistead, W. R., 189 Beume’s areometer, 83–84, 98, 125, 164, 185, 207 Beverly, Robert, 5 Birds, 66–67, 93, 147, 157, 204, 211–12 Black rot, 2, 5, 7, 66–67, 122, 162, 168–69, 179, 197, 203–5, 216–17 Bofill, Paul, 281 Bosc d’Antic, Louis-Augustin Guillaume, 39, 114, 163 Bottling, 104, 116, 142 Brandy, as additive to wine, 1, 83, 103, 115, 128, 155–56, 162, 184–85, 187 Brun-Chappuis, 117 Burgundy, 233, 235 Busby, James, 232 Calhoun, John C., 18, 20 Capitalism, 16 Caprification, 205 Casks, 74, 77–78, 96–97, 99–100, 127, 155, 163, 186, 241 Catawba wine, 3, 11–12, 149 Cattle, 264, 273 Cellars, 83, 104, 115, 152, 162, 239 Champagne, 9, 76, 82–83, 100, 104, 115, 154, 233, 235–37 Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude, 167 Cicero, 58–59 Clarke, George J. F., 8, 176–81, 193, 196–97, 214 Climate. See Weather index 294 Cobbett, William, 49–50 Columbia, S.C., 2, 9, 114, 201, 251 Columbia Telescope, 9, 283 Columella, Lucius Iunios Moderatus, 60 Cork, 150, 181–82 Corn, 242 Cotton, 71; planters, 8, 17–20, 158, 183 Coulure, 208, 217 Cours complet d’agriculture (Rosier), 56, 257 Coxe, William, 157, 189 Crop diversification, 16, 259 Crop rotation, 23, 48 Culling grapes, for crush, 10, 75, 97, 125, 185 Cuttings, 48, 52–56, 61–64, 109, 111–12, 119–20, 153, 155, 198–99, 220; and grafting, 161; preserving, 158–59, 191–92; sharing of, 151, 164, 247; support for, 61, 64–66, 120, 198 Davie, Allen Jones, 161–62 Davis, John, 6, 9, 14, 24, 204, 208–9 De Bernéaud, Thiébaut, 98 De Kerblay, Le Quino, 43 Delicacy, in wine, 1, 86–87, 100 Delisle, Guillaume, 233 Della Torre, Antonio, 130, 135 Depopulation, 22–23 DeSaussure, William F., 261, 281 De Schweinitz, Lewis David, 213 Distillation, 81, 115, 184 Dogs, 256 Dorchester, S.C., 142 Downing, A. J., 14 Drought, 55, 90, 111, 122, 158, 188, 217 Drunkenness, 41, 128, 226 Dubroca, Jean-Louis, 9, 16–17 Dufour, John James, 1–2, 6, 10, 12, 39–40, 68, 80–81, 116, 152, 167; The American Vine-Dresser’s Guide, 6, 12, 68–71, 80, 192n4, 282 Ellison, William, 14 Environmentalism, 20–22 Epicureanism, 4, 40–41 Espalier, 65–67 “Essay on the Culture of the Grape Vine, An” (Herbemont), 4, 6, 17, 39–85, 144, 165 European practice, 110, 187; advantages of, 177–80; compared with U.S. practices, 233–37; distance of vines in, 165, 168; fermentation in, 127; and soil, 90, 197–98, 258, 270; sugar not used in, 100; trenches in, 197–98, 214 Experimentalist winemakers, 6, 42, 71, 109–10, 128, 158, 225, 236–37 Failure, 5–6, 8, 10, 44, 110, 146–48, 193, 203–4, 206–8, 224–29, 262–63 Farmers (agricultors), 20, 171, 266, 269–73 Farmers’ Register, 219, 224, 232, 238, 241–42, 245, 283 Fendall, John W. (“Pomonkey”), 86–87 Fermentation, 74–78, 83–84, 96–100, 125–27, 152, 162–63, 185–86, 239 Fertility. See Soil Figs, 205 Fitzhugh, George, 1, 6, 139, 157, 163, 201n1, 210–12 Florida, 176–81 Fortification, of wine, 1, 4, 83, 95 France: brandy not added to wine...