[SunkenCiv]

A vineyard by Pic Saint Loup Mountain in southern France. [Credit: S. Ivorra CNRS/ISEM]

[Deaf Smith]

If Texas Mustang Grape root stocks that France needed and used in the 40’s & 50’s to replenish their vineyards that were then grafted, is it a genetic match?

[georgiegirl]

First vineyard can be traced back to Noah..that’s like 6000 years ago.

[truth_seeker]

My grandmother was a botany profesor in the 1920s.

My mother was a chemistry major.

I suppose what is noteworthy, is that it is noteworthy today.

Do they have a smartphone app for this “breakthrough” knowledge?

Seriously these vintners’ llivelihood depends on maintaining the “institutional” competence of their industry.

[Truthoverpower]

The red grape 🍇! From the heavens no doubt What did the lord Jesus turn water into. Boys and girls ?

[Svartalfiar]

This means the variety has grown for at least 900 years as cuttings from just one ancestral plant...

Huh? so some guy growing grapes 900 years ago, destroyed all his other plants, and rebuilt his vineyard from a single plant? And all his winemaking buddies, the weird raisin guy down the street, all got rid of their plants to use his one survivor? I don't think so...