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Article: Approach grafting at Domaine Carneros.
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- Wines & Vines
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
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Somebody had to do it.
In the war against phylloxera, Napa and Sonoma grape growers have been using approach and in-arch grafts for three or four years now. But until this year, no one had actually cut the old rootstock out.
"The vines look good, but you never know--it's possible they're living off the old rootstock. The new rootstock looks like it's taken, but as long as growers are getting a crop every year, they figure, why cut out the old rootstock just to find out," explains Rhonda Smith, Sonoma County viticulture farm advisor.
Observers have predicted that it would take a desperate situation before someone would put the new rootstock to the test, ...