Kentucky

The state in the south-east of the USA with the capital Frankfort Kentucky was initially part of Virginia and became the 15th state to join the United States in 1792. In 1799, the immigrant Swiss viticulture pioneer Jean Jacques Dufour (1763-1827) planted a vineyard with 35 different varieties on a bend of the Kentucky River in Jessamine County near Lexington. Among others, he used the historically important hybrid Alexander. This vineyard is considered to be the first commercially managed vineyard in the USA. Dufour also founded the "Kentucky Wineries Association" with some citizens of the city of Lexington in Jessamine County, which was reorganised in 1981 and still exists today. Until American Prohibition (1920-1933), Kentucky was still the third largest wine producer in the USA.

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