Robola (row-BO-la)

September 29, 2020

Grown principally on several Ionian islands of Greece. Makes powerful, lemony dry wines.

Wine was served at an official White House event for the first time during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln in 1861. One of the locally made bottlings was crafted from a native North American grape. What grape was it?

A. Concord

B. Norton

C. Marechal Foch

D. Scuppernong

Indigenous to North America, Norton is named for Dr. Daniel Norton who cultivated the grape for the first time in Virginia. Today Norton is the official grape of the state of Missouri and is considered the cornerstone of the Missouri wine industry.

“The pop of the cork should sound like a gunshot with a silencer.”

—Clovis Taittinger
Taittinger Champagne

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