AlB-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, June 1,1985
Can West Virginia be the Napa
BY DEBBIE STILES-RENZI
Staff Correspondent
BUCKHANNON, WV - Yes,
Pennsylvania, they really do grow
grapes in West Virginia!
And there are those, like Ferrenc
“Frank” Androczi, who produce
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home-grown wine here in the
Mountain State.
Frank Androczi operates one of
the four licensed wineries in the
state of West Virginia. A native of
Hungary, Androczi has created a
bit of his homeland in Upshur
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county, with his many fruit and nut
trees, berry bushes and vines, his
vineyard, and the wines that he
produces at his “Little Hungary
Farm Winery.”
Androczi believes grapes are an
excellent cash crop for West
Virginia. The deep, rocky clay
commonly found in most of the
state provides fertile soil and
proper drainage, and that, An
droczi exclaims, “is what the
grapes need.”
For the most part, Androczi is
right, says SCS soil conservationist
Joe Wentz. However, poor soil
drainage can be a problem in some
areas, Wentz wrote in a recent
issue of Vineyards of West
Virginia, newsletter of the West
Virginia Grape Growers
Association (WVGGA).
Grapes don’t tolerate poorly
drained soils at all, he said, so any
such location isn’t the place for
grapes, Wentz advises. Wetness
indicated by gray mottling in the
soil shouldn’t be considered a
problem if it occurs three feet or
more below the surface, however.
Grapes prefer a pH of 6.5 to 7.0,
which is a little more basic than
the average for West Virginia
farmland. When Androczi began
his plantings after moving to
Buckhannon in 1967, he added 3
tons per acre of lime to the
vineyard sites.
Varieties
A variety of groups, both public
and private, have been working to
establish which grape varieties
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Valley of the East?
This particular plant is a cutting of one which Frank An
droczi smuggled out of his native Hungary in 1976.
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