Part 3 of 5

Wine, and this state's in particular

Muscadine, scuppernong, and why North Carolina wine is sweeter than newcomers expect.

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• 3.1Muscadine and scuppernong: this state’s native grape
  A separate species from the European vine, with forty chromosomes rather than thirty-eight, native because everything else planted here died.
• 3.2Why North Carolina wine is sweeter than newcomers expect
  It follows from the grape and from the acid rather than from a lack of ambition, and it is exactly what chocolate wants.
• 3.3Dry, off-dry, sweet: what the words are doing
  Defined in law in some places and not in others, and on a sparkling bottle they run backwards: dry is sweeter than brut.
• 3.4Sulfites, headaches, and what is actually established
  All wine contains them, sensitivity is real and respiratory, and the headache attribution is not supported by the evidence.
• 3.5Reading a North Carolina wine label
  Produced means fermented here; cellared does not. Three phrases, four seconds, and a wine placed better than by any tasting note.

For further context, see TTB wine resources.