The South's Biggest Winery: Jonathan Fussell of Duplin Winery
The rise and fall and rise and fall and then spectacular rise of North Carolina’s Duplin Winery is representative of southern wine. Started in 1968, Duplin was one of the many contract sellers to New York’s Canandaigua Winery until that market collapsed. Having acres of fruit and nowhere to sell it, brothers David and Dan Fussell (along with their father Big D) opened Duplin in what was then a dry county. Through sibling spats, buyouts, the 1980s farm crisis, and just about