


Not only that, but these successes helped quench the nation’s thirst to suc-cessfully venture into the wine business like its European counterparts.

He climbed to the top as a leading American winemaker, and put Cincinnati on the map in the mid-19th century as a thriving wine region and a culturally blooming epicenter-Th e Rhine of America. His passion for the vine is what truly shaped his role in history as the father of American wine. But Longworth’s story doesn’t stop there. He made his fortune quickly and at one time was one of the two largest tax-pay-ers in the U.S. by jessie kuhn photogr aphy by michael wilson C all it a viticultural vision of Manifest Destiny: In 1803, Nicholas Longworth came to Ohio as a young lawyer and fi rst set the seeds for his wealth by acquiring untamed land along the Ohio River and throughout Cincinnati. wine culture in the 19th century is still relevant today. Adams his pioneering work to advance U.S. Cultivators Vines of the Rhine Nicholas Longworth didn’t just plant grapevines on Mt.
