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Originally Posted by cashflyer View Post
That's just more US propaganda fed to the unknowing masses.
no, he is correct about the grape vines - the French had a nasty disease epidemic and the solution was to graft the US cultivars onto the French roots

Stijn is absolutley correct in his more thorough explanation - but there were some vine types almost completelywiped out and saved by US grafts - IIRC, it was Pinot vines (Burgundy).

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Old 08-20-2008, 09:51 PM
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