Fox News caption: BY WINNING, DEMOCRATS ARE ACTUALLY LOSING
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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One of the reasons California has "good" wine is because most of the vineyards in Italy and France were dying from root rot, in an effort to save all of the vines dying they grafted the healthy vines onto roots in California and let them start to grow there. (Edit: turns out it was Missouri). Then we transported some of the healthy roots/grafted vines back to Italy and France, and the California (edit: "American rootstock") roots were immune from the disease causing the rot. Forever fusing some of their grapes/vines history
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.