Do you have a source for that? I’ve heard about how during the Great French Wine Blight that nearly all French wineries now use grafted root stock since American plants were resistant. But I’ve never read anything about California’s vines being grafted with French or Italian vines and grown in California to make “good” wine.
Ah your article shows most of the rootstock coming from Missouri during that blight. I’ll have to double check and find a source where I remember that from.
Edit: I believe my thoughts were because Vitis Vinifera is often grafted onto Vitis californica rootstock. But it looks like it was mostly mix breeds of Vitis rupestris.
Always fun to see more how random animals/plants nearly destroy and are also supporting systems for each other worldwide at this point.
Do you have a source for that? I’ve heard about how during the Great French Wine Blight that nearly all French wineries now use grafted root stock since American plants were resistant. But I’ve never read anything about California’s vines being grafted with French or Italian vines and grown in California to make “good” wine.
Ah your article shows most of the rootstock coming from Missouri during that blight. I’ll have to double check and find a source where I remember that from.
Edit: I believe my thoughts were because Vitis Vinifera is often grafted onto Vitis californica rootstock. But it looks like it was mostly mix breeds of Vitis rupestris.
Always fun to see more how random animals/plants nearly destroy and are also supporting systems for each other worldwide at this point.