"William Black" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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"William Black" wrote in message
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The price of champagne and decent cheese would drop even lower.

French wine is all from California vines and we can't buy French cheese.

And the Californian vines came from where originally?



The French (and Californian) vines were destroyed by the
Phyloxera infestation in the 19th century but it was found
that the native American rootstocks found in Missouri
were resistant, all modern French wine is grown from cuttings
grafted on to those American rootstocks.


Keith