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Viticulture
VIT-ih-kul-cher
Also Known As Winegrowing
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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.
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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 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Destroyed much of French viticulture; the grafted American rootstock remedy reshaped the practice worldwide
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A branch of the science of horticulture
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1. Viticulture (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section; Areni-1 cave datingQuote, Lead section; Areni-1 cave dating
Viticulture (Latin: vitis cultura, "vine-growing"), viniculture (vinis cultura, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes.
Phylloxera (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationGrafting with resistant rootstock sectionQuote, Grafting with resistant rootstock section
the rootstock does not interfere with the development of the wine grapes
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