American vine
Any of several vines used for rootstock for the Vitis vinifera because of its resistance to phylloxera.
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This is distinct from a hybrid which involves using American vines. cruLiterally, a growth-a particular vineyard of merit. cru bourgeoisBordeaux châteaux that are classified below the Cru Classé.
An earthy flavor attributed to wines that are made from native American vines, such as labrusca.
Fresh. Young and vital-often applied to well balanced light wines, low in tannin, that are drunk young.
Fruity. Recalling fruits in flavor.
The pest hitchhiked its way to Europe via some American vines and thereupon spread, destroying much of the continent's vines by infesting their roots.
In some places vines are planted on American vine rootstocks which are known to restrict the uptake of salt. 1103 Paulsen, 140 Ruggeri and the ubiquitous Ramsey (also known as Salt Creek) are fairly effective in this regard.
Finally Thomas Munson, a horticulturist from Dennison, Texas, realized that native American vines were resistant and suggested grafting the vinifera vines onto riparia hybrid rootsocks.
It was discovered that Phylloxera came from America, where it's attack on American vines didn't affect them. So, the idea came up of propagating the American vine roots and exporting them to the French regions that had been attacked.
A hybrid grape results from a crossing between a Vitis vinifera variety - such as Riesling or Pinot Noir - with an American vine. Hybrid grapes were once widely planted in France, Canada, and elsewhere but have lost popularity over the years.
In this case the roots of an American vine are attached to the top half of a European vine. The resulting vine is half-American, half-European. This was very hard for the Europeans to swallow.
Vitis rotundifolia: A native American vine species found growing around the Gulf of Mexico.
Vitis vinifera: The native European species of vine that is used to produce most of the world's wine.
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The aphid kills European wine varieties but native American vine roots are resistant. This is the reason that Thomas Jefferson wasn't able to farm European vines in America even though his American vines thrived. See Thomas Jefferson.
As the Times of London reported "Despite the French tasters, many of whom had taken part in the original tasting, 'expecting the downfall' of the American vineyards, ...
Hybrid indicates a grape variety that has ancestry which includes an American Vine Species. This is now rather frowned upon - at least by the European Union. If the grape's ancestry is entirely European it is called simply a 'cross'.
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Most of the world's vineyards are planted with grafted vines like this today, everything above ground being Vitis vinifera, and everything below ground being American vine.
foxy - distinctive taste of the grapes and wine of some American vines, especially Vitis labrusca and some of its hybrids. Methyl anthranilate is the (often) offending compound.
Vitis Riparia
another American vine, notable for its resistance to phylloxera
Vitis Rupestris
Rupestris St. George is important almost solely as rootstock ...
an insatiable appetite for the roots of grape vines, and once a vineyard is infected there is no cure, except for ripping the vines out and replacing them with the plants that have been grafted onto resistant rootstock from native American vines, ...
The fruit of the vine Vitis labrusca itself may be used in the production of wine, but is more often used for grape jelly or similar products. An American vine species, ...
Callus point between two vine shoots. An operation made widespread after 1880, after the Phylloxera crisis, on American vinestock.
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Grown in British Columbia, Canada and other N. American vineyards where it reportedly is used to create a varietal wine closer in style to classic Pinot Noir than does the Pinot Meunier. Limited acreages also (1997) found in Germany.
Very soon they realized the result that could be obtained with American vines was very different and not much appreciable according to the expectations of the European taste.
 See also: Wine, Vineyard, Grape, Vine, Bottle
  
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