Monticello Wine Company

38.0358°N 78.4782°W / 38.0358; -78.4782

Monticello Wine Company
LocationCharlottesville, Virginia, USA
Founded1873
Key peopleAdolph Russow
Known forVirginia Claret
VarietalsNorton (grape), Catawba (grape), Delaware (grape)
Other productsVirginia grape brandy

The Monticello Wine Company was a Charlottesville, Virginia cooperative founded in 1873 by local grape growers,[1] led by a German, Oscar Reierson.[2] Its four-story winery had a capacity of 200,000 gallons, and was located at the end of Wine Street, near Hedge Street.[3] It was the largest winery in the South.[4] It shut down with the onset of Prohibition in Virginia, which took effect on November 1, 1916.[1][5]

The Monticello Wine Company building.

The success of Monticello Wine Company brought Charlottesville to declare itself "the Capital of the Wine Belt in Virginia."[1] The company was best known for its Virginia Claret Wine, produced with Norton grapes—it "won a major international award in 1873 at the Vienna Exposition."[6] It was located in what is now the Monticello American Viticultural Area.[7]

References
  1. "Historical Highway Markers: Monticello Wine Company". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2008-11-30.
  2. Pinney, Thomas (1989). A History of Wine in America. University of California Press. pp. 413–4. ISBN 978-0520062245.
  3. K. Edward Lay (2000). The Architecture of Jefferson Country. University of Virginia Press. p. 244. ISBN 0-8139-1885-5. The Monticello Wine Company...was on a hill at the end of Wine Street near Hedge Street...
  4. K. Edward Lay (2000). The Architecture of Jefferson Country. University of Virginia Press. p. 244. ISBN 0-8139-1885-5. The Monticello Wine Company, the largest in the South at that time...
  5. Eaton, Lorraine. "Virginia's Prohibition history". The Virginian-Pilot. Archived from the original on 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2008-11-30. On Halloween night 1916...the state joined 17 others that banned the sale of liquor.
  6. Leahy, Richard (2008-02-19). "Virginia Wine: Nearly Four Centuries and Counting". Archived from the original on 2008-06-14. Retrieved 2008-11-30. In Charlottesville, the Monticello Wine Company, operating with grapes grown by co-op members, won a major international award in 1873 at the Vienna Exposition for a "Virginia claret" based on Norton.
  7. "Code of Federal Regulations. Title 27: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Part 9 — American Viticultural Areas; Subpart C — Approved American Viticultural Areas; § 9.48 Monticello". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2008-11-30.


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