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Stuart worked in Beltsville for the forage crop division of the Agricultural Research facility after his graduation from VPI and some graduate work at the University of Maryland. He says that grapes are not his specialty but his hobby. “I have had an advantage in making some of these more difficult varieties grow,” he said. “I may not know so much about them but I’ve always had access to those who do.”
A tour of Stuart’s grape vines means a lot of picking and tasting and I was surprised by the wide differences in the tastes of the grapes. There is the Delaware, a very sweet dessert grape, the Loretto, a dense small juice grape, Vergennees, named after the French ambassador at the time of the Revolution, Urbana, a late ripening red for table use. Stuart has ^Concords - a truly American grape developed in Massachussetts in 1852 - and some other Concord types like Worden and Steuben. He has several varieties of white grapes - Niagra is one of these and some beautiful French double hybrids that hang on the vines in heavy clusters with each individual grape shaped like a teardrop rather than a sphere.
Near Stuart's house are two rows of Clinton - a grape vine he says that is older than he. Around some of these vines Stuart has hung netting. but by the tracks in the muddy ground we could see that birds and bees were not the only critters stealing his grapes. In the soft dirt we found deer tracks, around the vines and also under the apple tree where we found a half-eaten apple left by a
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