Scuppernong

====According to //The Facts on File Dictionary of Regionalisms//, scuppernong refers to "the muscadine grape, //Vitis rotundifolia//, with large sweet fruit. The name derives from the Scuppernong River and Lake in Tyrrel County, North Carolina where the grape was discovered in the 18th century."====

In //Absalom, Absalom!//, Thomas Sutpen serves scuppernong claret upon the completion of his house at Sutpen's Hundred.
====// And there would be music at night--fiddle and triangle among the blazing candles, the blowing of curtains in tall windows on the April darkness, the swing of crinoline indiscriminate within the circle of plain gray cuff of the soldier or the banded gold of rank, of an army even if not a war of gentlesmen, where private and colonel called each other by their given names not as one farmer to another across a halted plow or in a field or across a counter in a store laden with calico and cheese and strap oil, but as one man to another above the suave powdered shoulders of women, above the two raised glasses of scuppernong claret // //or bought champagne// ... (AA). ====

–Andrew Cedermark