vine stock

How do we plan to alter the vine stocks in an area of designated origin?

An ancient vine stock planted by the Patriarch's own hands still flourishes.'

The vineyards in the Loire were ploughed up, and replanted using vine stock free from disease.

It caused much damage and led to a farming depression before resistant American vine stocks were introduced on a scale wide enough to stop the epidemic.

What is the use of altering the quantity of vine stocks in a production region without altering its winemaking facilities?

The vines produced by this hybridization did not necessarily produce better wines, but did produce vine stock that could better survive Phylloxera attacks.

After which Vatinius Senior went in for growing grapes, and was shrewd enough to pay a huge sum for vine stock yielding a superb white wine.

The relics of St Valentine were purchased in Rome, in hopes of curing the town's diseased vine stocks; within four years they were healed.

Under favorable conditions the grapes are left on the vine stock late in the Fall, and the resulting wine is sold as "szemelt rizling" (literally, selected riesling).

Mme Burle was sitting up before a meager fire of vine stocks, while her little grandson Charles pored over his lessons by the pale light of a lamp.

The outline of 120 vine stocks was discovered in 2008, during the expansion of a residential development that was updating 300 septic tanks all lined up in an area of 6 km.

The first two crops still flourish in the district but the once flourishing wineries-bodegas- were wiped out by the phylloxera insect infestation of the 1860s, which effectively destroyed most European vine stocks.

But judges at these competitions say the more important quality is precision and cleanliness, which can mean the difference between a vine stocked with healthy bunches of grapes and one rife with bunch rot.

On the Kreuzberg, like on some neighbouring hills, remained vineyards until 1739/1740, when a hefty frost killed most of the vine stock, among them Red Malvasian and Muscateller are recorded.

The dreaded disease had taken almost thirty years to reach Champagne since it was first identified in the Côtes-du-Rhône region, where it had arrived on experimental vine stocks shipped from America via London.

James Busby (7 February 1801 - 15 July 1871) is widely regarded as the "father" of the Australian wine industry, as he took the first collection of vine stock from Spain and France to Australia.

In March 1832 he was appointed to the position of British Resident of New Zealand and went to the Bay of Islands, taking with him some of the vine stock he had collected in Europe.

Chilean oenologist Patricio Tapia adds that while Chilean pisco producers usually mix vine stocks, Peruvian producers have specific pisco types that use the aromatic qualities of vines such as Yellow Muscat and Italia.

In point of fact, there have been no surpluses for some years now, and that change of fortune is, I believe, not the work of Bacchus but a result of the extensive grubbing-up and the ban on replanting during that period which substantially impoverished European vineyards and left us with ageing vine stocks.

Most of the six acres of land we had bought with the house was planted with vines, and these had been looked after for years under the traditional system ofmetayage: the owner of the land pays the capital costs of new vine stock and fertilizer, while the farmer does the work of spraying, cropping, and pruning.