The cultivation and harvesting of grapes, a branch of horticulture old enough that a complete winery survives from around 4100 BC in the Areni-1 cave in Armenia. The viticulturist's year is canopy, water, pests and pruning, decisions that reach the glass a season later; the wine itself, as drink and cuisine, belongs to the Food Atlas, while the vineyard, the rootstock and the growing belong here. Since the phylloxera blight, nearly all of the world's wine grapes grow grafted on American roots. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Central QuestionHow do site, vine and handling decide what a grape can become, and how is the vineyard kept healthy from season to season? 1 Connections
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Destroyed much of French viticulture; the grafted American rootstock remedy reshaped the practice worldwide
Source Great French Wine Blight (Wikipedia)
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Source Wikipedia: Elyakum Ostashinski
Source Wikipedia: John Reid Wolfskill
Source Wikipedia: Matthew Keller
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1. Viticulture (Wikipedia)
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Viticulture (Latin: vitis cultura, "vine-growing"), viniculture (vinis cultura, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes.
Phylloxera (Wikipedia)
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the rootstock does not interfere with the development of the wine grapes
Wikipedia: Matthew Keller
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Matthew Keller or Mathew Keller (1810-1881) was an early agriculturalist, vintner and distiller in Los Angeles, California, shortly after it became part of the United States following the Mexican War.
Wikipedia: Elyakum Ostashinski
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Elyakum Ostashinski or Elyakum Austshinsky (Hebrew: אליקום אוסטשינסקי), born 1909, died 1983, was the first mayor of Rishon LeZion, and later CEO of the Vineyard Association.
Wikipedia: John Reid Wolfskill
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In 1842, Wolfskill was the first settler to plant vineyards and fruit trees there.
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