White Oak Vineyards makes a popular blueberry wine but also produces grape varietals such as Norton and Muscadine.
While a vintner awaits PD resistant vines, it’s fruit
forward in Alabama
by
Alan Goldfarb
December 30, 2008
andal Wilson knows from dirt about as well as he knows his terrain. Finding himself relocated to northeast Alabama because of work, the Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) agriculture and soil science graduate has parlayed that knowledge into a tiny parcel in the Choccolocco Valley (chok o locko) where he makes wine mostly from blackberries and blueberries.
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