A type of grape or wine produced from a reddish-brown grape variety, or a Native American people from the Carolinas.
From the Catawba people (Katapu in their own language), a Siouan tribe from the Carolinas. The grape variety was named after this people because they grew it in their region during early American settlement.
The Catawba grape became famous because it was one of the first grapes successfully cultivated in America, and wine made from it was actually trendy in the 1800s—colonists gave the grape the same name as the Indigenous people of that region.
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