Re:A Medieval Grape Is Still Used to Make Wine
by th0ma5 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:39AM
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I kept seeing somewhere for a while that Ohio based grape varieties are used for the root stock now used, but I can't find this anywhere now. Perhaps it isn't accurate.
Re:A Medieval Grape Is Still Used to Make Wine
by wjp3 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:51AM
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Uncertain that they were from Ohio, but it was (and is) American rootstock that’s used to combat the parasite.
Re:A Medieval Grape Is Still Used to Make Wine
by convivialdingo on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:57AM
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I had read earlier that the rootstock came from Ingleside, near Corpus Christi, TX. Wikipedia says they came from Temple, TX.
Re:A Medieval Grape Is Still Used to Make Wine
by amyjess on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @12:29PM
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I was actually just talking to a coworker last week about this, and he told me that modern rootstock almost entirely comes from Grayson County, Texas (a.k.a. the Sherman-Denison MSA, just north of the Dallas area).
Interestingly enough, a few weeks ago I had a Riesling from Washington that had "100% vinifera rootstock" prominently printed on the label. Not every part of the world got hit by phylloxera. I understand that some parts of South America (either Argentina or Chile, I can't remember) were spared as well.
So the seeds might be the same, but the roots often aren't.