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The muscadine grape is native to the southeastern United States, found in the wild from Delaware to the Gulf of Mexico and westward to Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The first record of muscadine grape vine occurrence was posted in the ship logbook in the year 1524 by the navigator Giovanni de Verrazzano, who was hired as a captain from Florence, Italy by the King of France to explore and report on the inhabitants and the habitat of the New World. Muscadines are well adapted to the warm, humid conditions of the southeastern U.S., where the American and the European grape do not prosper. Muscadines are vigorous, deciduous vines growing 60-100 ft. in the wild.

Shannon Vineyards is proud to grow Muscadine Grapes, which have gained such little recognition as a superior ingredient in wine and as a fruit with incomparable health benefits! According to Jim Magee at ARS' Small Fruit Research Laboratory in Poplarville, Miss., and nutritionist Betty Ector with MSU in Mississippi State, Miss.One-half serving (two ounces) of unfiltered muscadine juice, one serving of muscadine jam, one medium muscadine muffin, or one-tenth serving of muscadine sauce give the same dietary amounts of resveratrol as four fluid ounces of red wine.