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[deleted] t1_j0bllps wrote

Reply to comment by italageordie in TIL Europe's wine owes its existence to the grafting of vines to American grape root stock that weren't vulnerable to a species of aphid that was destined to wipe the industry out. by salton

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rapiertwit t1_j0bs3yf wrote

There's thousands of years of careful cultivation that go into those vines. You can't just take the American variety and breed it to reproduce each individual variety of grape, flavor-wise, in a few generations.

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