Keywords: Alphonse Loubat, a New York merchant.jpg Alphonse Loubat a New York merchant born in France planted a large vineyard of vinifera vines in Brooklyn in the 1820s and published a book in both French and English called The American Vine-Dresser's Guide 1827 Interesting chiefly as a late memorial to the futile belief that vinifera would do well in the American East after two hundred years of unbroken failure it was for some inexplicable reason reprinted in 1872 when its views had long been discredited Pinney Thomas http //publishing cdlib org/ucpressebooks/view docId ft967nb63q;chunk id d0e5342;doc view print A History of Wine in America From the Beginnings to Prohibition Berkeley University of California Press 1989 https //archive org/stream/americanvinedres01loub page/n3/mode/2up Book Loubat Alphonse https //archive org/stream/americanvinedres01loub page/n3/mode/2up The American Vine Dresser's Guide New York D Appleton Co 1827 reprinted in 1872 1827 Internet Archive Book Images PD-old-100-1923 Alphonse Loubat |