vhoae vines are easier to train
ind don't require the thinning
tint helps improve grape
quality.
"Concord was king, and that
was it," he says. of those days.
Festival Draws Thousands
Now the growth of interest
In wine has brought an
economic boomiet to the area.
Signs on Interstate M direct
visitors to wineries and wine
tours, and a three-day win*
festival brought nearly 30,000
visitors through Paw Paw
wineries in September.
Almost all Michigan wine is
sold within Michigan and sur
rounding states, and St. Julian
officials admit that Michigan
wineries are far behind their
California and European
counterparts. They see that as
a challenge.
"We're still on the ground
floor, and this is when the
basic decisions are being
made," Catherman says.
"What varieties do you
grow? How do you grow
them? How do you make the
best wine out of them? Does
seyval blanc grow better in a
little corner of Berrien Coun
ty, or does it do better in Van
Buren County? Does it like
heavier ground or lighter
ground? "I worked in Califor
nia for a while, but there's
more excitement in these
questions here."
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SAMPLING HIS OWN WARES, Chas Cather
man, winemaker at the St. Julian Winery in
Paw Paw, Mich., checks on the color of some
red wine in the winery's aging cellars. Aging
premium wine in small oak barrels permits it
to remain in contact with wood, giving it
special flavor. The temperature of the cellar
remains nearly constant all year round.
If you are planning to hunt
deer in western Madison
County this year, the NC
Wildlife Resources Commis
sion requests you help in ob
taining data on the area's deer
herd. -
Commission personnel will
man a data collection station
on Rich Mountain at the in
tersection of US 25-70 and Rich
Mountain Road on November
21, 22, 26, December 3, 10.
Please bring your deer by to
learn its age, weight, and
health condition. This will
greatly assist in the manage
ment of the area's deer herd.
98 Called To Serve
Jury Duty
Madison County Clerk of
:ourts Jim Cody has announc
d that the names of 96
esidents were selected to
erve as prospective jurors
luring the term of Superior
kHirt scheduled to begin on
Wv. 28.
Those chosen during the
)ct. 7 selection were: Edna
Aarie Fisher, Madeline
lenkins, Paul G. Newton, Alan
)ouglas Fender, Mary Louise
lector, Leola Caldwell,
iobert Glen Norville, Pamela
lean Honeycutt, Linda Allen
leeves, Donna Palma Nipper,
iary Lee Spence, Donald
laynie, Woodson Jake Met
alf, Miriam Eller Zink,
,'harley Edward Conner,
^aura Mae Hollifleld, Helen
lawyer Ponder, Ethel Wild
tskew, Harold Eugene
lolcombe, Kenneth Dean
Aoore, Dan Lee Beckwith,
Aarion A. Ramsey, Earnest
;. Langsley, Thula Jane
Aoore, Wiley Jackson
lenderson, Savada B.
'onder, Charles Deuane
towers, Roger Dale Wells,
iazel Dockery Wilde,
leanette Brazell Shannon,
Mark Wendell Moore, Ken
leth Edwin Roberts, Freda
?ae Metcalf, Julliett Waddell
Vnderson, Kenneth Garey
lenson, David C. Rice, Louise
?. Freeman, Gary C. Brooks,
Richard McCrary Taylor,
&ulala H. Boone, Leonard E.
Roberts, Hazel Wood Murray,
Element Buckner, Loyd Perry
Lamb, William Roy Shetley,
Jecile George Briggs, James
D. McKinney, Homer F rank
Brown, David Wills, Bobby
Allen Thomas, Dorothy Lee
Honeycutt, Herbert Wild,
John Gardner III, Nicky Joe
F'owler, Ethel Messer
Caldwell, John Guy Grind
staff, Jr., Randy Norton, Joe
Murray, William Howard
Deal, Viola Gosnell, Retha
Wilde Ward, Mable Mary
Rose, Billie Jean Redmon,
Louise Joyce Edwards,
William A. Fox, Janice A.
Cantrell, Thelma Gardner,
Clyde Porter Jarvis, Steward
Jay Canter, Catherine Murray
Phythian, Tulin Arrington,
W.H. Goforth, Michael
Burkhead, Clyde McKinney,
Robert E. FTisbee, Lawrence
Clemens, Diana Boles
Blankenship, Andrew
Landers, Cecil W. Williams,
Bertha Metcalf, Daisy Ander
son, Jim Fred Norton, Florrie
Moore McFall, Frances A.
Allen, Thomas Edgar Justice,
Alice Gentry Moore, William
Lovins, Darnell Naulty,
Maymee Drake, Edith Cheek,
Thresa Cameron, Eulala
Baker, Karen Sue Hunter,
Larry S. Plemmons, Mary
Evelyn Underwood, Donnie H.
Andrews and Terry Lee Ed
monds.
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Wine Production Is A Global Industry
By BORIS WEINTRAUB
NATIONAL geographic
NEW8 SERVICE
WASHINGTON - It is not
entirely correct to say that
Harm J. de Blij looks at a bot
tle of fine wine and thinks only
of geography. Not entirely
correct, but pretty close
Show de Blij, a professor of
, 8?ography at the University of
Miami, a bottle of a 1975
Bordeaux from the commune
of St. bstephe, and he will talk
about the composition of the
soil where its grapes were
grown, the climate, the
amount of heat and sunlight :
physical geography.
He will talk about the laws
governing the labeling of the
wine, and how the appellation
system was developed:
political geography.
Viticulture and Viniculture
He will talk about how vines
came to be planted in
Bordeaux, and how the
methods and theories of
viticulture (the growing
grapes) and viniculture (the
making of wine) were
preserved primarily by the
church in the Middle Ages
historical geography.
And he will talk about the
longstanding traditions of the
area's growers and wine
makers, the specialized
knowledge that goes back cen
turies, the relationship bet
ween grape and region
cultural geography.
"Geography is So
marvelously relatable to
wine," says de Blij, who has
just published a book called
"Wine. A Geographic Ap
preciation." "It's climate, it's
Lions
(Continued from Page 8
Friday, the Lions will face
NAIA national champion Col
lege of Charleston in the
champion's tournament. On
Monday, the Lions travel to
Knoxville for a contest against
Knoxville College. The Lions
then face 1981-82 national
champion (JSC-Spartanburg
in their tournament, Nov. 25
and 26. (JSC-Spartanburg will
travel to Mars Hill on Dec. 3 to
complete the home-and-home
?prip s
?oil, it's culture, it's tradition,
it's history. In a sense, you
could say that a bottle of wine
is a summary of a region."
Only after such discourse to
a lunch companion will he
taste the wine. It's not that de
Blij doesn't like wine for itself.
Far from it.
"A ?reat bottle of wine is a
noble creation, a work of art
as well as science, a triumph
of talent and initiative, a pro
geny of natural environment
and cultural tradition," he
writes in the book's preface.
"As complex as a Monet land
scape and as intricate as a
Bach partita, such a wine is to
the sense of smell and taste
what painting is to the eye and
music to the ear ... It is an
endless adventure of
boundless joy, envlivened by
discoveries of unexpected
treasures."
But de Blij maintains that a'
full understanding of the
geography of wine enhances
one's enjoyment. He presses
this principle upon his
students in his wine
geography course, one of
about 20 offered in American
colleges and universities.
Global Wine Research
His research has taken Jtim
to vineyards around the
world: to Japan, New
Zealand, the Mediterranean,
Argentina, to France and Ger
many, of course, and to
California and to many other
American states, which led to
the discovery that grapes
suitable for wine are grown in
every state but Alaska.
Just as there is no single
greatest wine, there is no
single best way'to produce it.
Instead, de Blij says, great
wines depend on a number of
geographical factors. Take,
for example, Bordeaux: Why
are its wines so special?
"To a very considerable ex
tent, it's history," de Blij says,
"the length of time that
generation after generation
has been making wine,
avoiding the pitfalls, and
capitalizing on the advan
tages.
"The vine has been standing
there for a long time, and it
has capitalized on the par
ticular environment that
prevails there; its root
systems may now be 16 or 18
feet more down into the soil,
and cloned over and over until
the most delicate adjustment
with the local environmental
ecology has been achieved.
"Then there is a cultural
tradition that has produced
experts, winemakers who can
almost sense the readiness of
grapes in the vineyard, feel
the readiness of wine in the
barrel, time the period of
fermentation. There are cer
tain areas where certain
families have made wine and
have taught the making of
wine almost since civilization
began."
De Blij has found that the
way vineyards are laid out
says something about the
character of the growers. He
cautions against going too far
in such comparisons, but
writes in his book about the ex
actness and regimentation of
German vineyards, the widely
spaced, machine-harvested
vines of central California, the
undisciplined Italian
vineyards where vines spill
out everywhere.
"in Malta," he recalls, "the
vines were simply crawling
along the ground. I asked the
winemaker, for whom the
growers were contractors,
why he didn't suggest that
they hang the vines from a
trellis. He said, 'What happens
if we set up trellises and we
get one of four familiar
Mediterranean winds and
everything gets blown over? 1
leave them alone.' "
Resistant to Change
Grape growers and
winemakers, de Blij has
found, are conservative peo
ple who carry their traditional
ways of doing things with
them wherever they go. He
cites a group of Germans who
moved to Australia's Baross
Valley and planted grapes
suitable only for distilling into
brandy.
"The winemakers went to
them and asked them to plant
grapes for table wines," he
says. "And the growers
wouldn't do it! Even when
they were promised con
siderable incentive, they
wouldn't do it. The reason is
that they were comfortable
with the way the vines they
were familiar with grew and
looked,
"What that says is that
tradition dies hard, even when
economic incentive seems to
lie right before the growers."
De Blij has noted that
grapes are grown and wine
produced in many unexpected
places, from Zimbabwe to
Korea, from the Soviet Union
to Uruguay. The rise in
American production can be
attributed to many factors,
from increased consumption
by Americans who have
traveled abroad and seen
wine-drinking as routine, to
the increasing maturity and
affluence of the baby-boom
generation that was drinking
fruit wines a decade ago, to
the development of hybrid
grape vines designed to withs
tand difficult climates.
"We have hybrids now that
combine the hardiness of
American grapes with the
tastiness of the F'rench
grapes," he notes. "There are
some hybrids you can grow
where the temperature goes 20
degrees below zero. That
would wipe out virtually every
variety of vinifera ? the
species of grape that produces
the world's noblest wines. You
get grapes in Florida that
have been bred for their
resistance to mildew."
Unanswered Questions
Though U.S. wine consump
tion rose 60 percent in the
1970s, per capita consumption
here still is far below that in
other urban, industrial
societies. One question that
fascinates de Blij is why the
I emigration of Germans,
Italians, and Spaniards to
Argentina and Chile spurred
i production and consumption
? there to very high levels, while
the arrival of similar groups
in the United States and
i Canada had no such impact.
It has been my privilege to
serve Marshall as its mayor for
the past six years.
I sincerely wish the new
town board the very best in
managing the town's affairs.
THANK
YOU
I wish to express my appreciation to the
people of Marshall for re-electing me to their
board of aldermen.
I readily accept the responsibilities of my of
fice and to the people of Marshall and the
surrounding areas.
As I have in the past. I will in the future work
hard for the betterment of Marshall and its com
munities.
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THANK YOU
VOTERS
Isincerely appreciate the support you have given me in this
tion and the terms of the past ten years.
Although I did not win re-election this term. I am proud to
served with three different mayors and five boards of aldermen
every one of them has sacrificed much of their time to see that
better things of Hfe come our way. Many former mayors and
are dead and many stiM living
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