Need Advice--gifted 78 Ch. Talbot

[Thomas]

Guys, guys--all wrong.

When phylloxera hit Europe the answer was to use American root stocks to revitalize the vineyards. It was native American root stock, because they are immune to the louse that attacked the European Vineyards. The reason the louse got to Europe was through transportation of American vines to Europe, and not the other way around.

The root stock that saved European vineyards came first from Missouri, and then from the East Coast, where the native American vines existed. California had nothing whatsoever to do with it.

European vines have been grafted onto American root stock ever since.

There is an awful lot of confusion regarding wine, and sometimes pieces of stories get mixed into pieces of other stories, kind of like the game we used to play as children--whisper something in someone's ear, that someone whispers into someone ele's ear, and so on, until the last person gets information that bears no resemblance to the first.