A few vineyards never needed grafting. Santorini, Colares, Chile and the Barossa still grow vines on their own roots — living relics of the pre-phylloxera world.
Grapevines are grafted because of phylloxera — European fruit above ground, American roots below. How grafting works, where rootstocks come from, and why growers now choose them as carefully as the grape.
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