Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), a Frenchman by birth, was a large-scale vine breeder in the USA in Columbia, South Carolina. The Herbemont variety, which he selected in 1790, is named after him. In 1828, Herbemont gave the winegrower Nicholas Longworth (1783-1863) a number of cuttings of the Jacquez variety he had selected, which he had received from Isaac Lenoir in South Carolina.
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