Richard Clark wrote:
Boy, are you late in taking in your newspaper. This has been going on
since the American vineyards saved the French lines from a devastating
rust blight decades ago. There is no original French line that has
not been re-planted from American root cuttings for half a century or
more after the Germans tilled their soil with Stukas.

A lot of those American wine-making families had French roots. :-)
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp