How Texas Saved Wine

Like French wine?

Thank Texas!

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I had a video the other day uh where I was tasting Spanish wines and Texas wines um and well yes Spain did come out on top uh in that particular taste test though it was pretty close on a couple of them there were some comments some some slightly snooty comments from wine

Lovers here or there who were like Texas wine doesn’t really compare it can’t really compete I prefer my oldw world wines I like my my French wines my Chardon my P Noir and things like that um so so if you do if you do like French wines um you should say thank you

Texas because if it wasn’t for Texas you wouldn’t have them now some Texans I’m sure know this story but this is for not just Texans this is for everybody else that likes wine this is just FYI you owe a lot to Texas in this particular case

Because back in the 1860s mid 1860s in France there was a big problem now wine was a big part of France’s GDP at the time it probably still is but there was a wine Mouse called filox vatri which to be honest sounds like a character from a

R doll book but filia vatri was wreaking havoc and destroying all of these oldw World Vines these classic vines that grow all these amazing wines not just in France across Europe and so it looked like it was going to completely destroy the French wine industry so a French

Botanist was sent to the new world to try and find vines that could save the French wine industry batric by the way that’s Latin for destroy that’s a pretty apt name because it was wiping out so this French botanist he traveled all across America apparently 10,000 Mi backwards and forwards across the

Country taking clippings to attempt to graft to Old World Vines to hopefully make them resistant to the LA but it just wasn’t working it wasn’t working it wasn’t quite right the pH was wrong until this French botanist came to Texas and he met Thomas VY Monson actually

Have a portrait of him there he is very handsome fell from Dennison Texas now he was growing wines but he was growing Wines in a very scrubby Limestone area of Texas with high ph and low acidity very similar to where in France they were growing their wines so he grafted

This Vine to the old world Vines and hey Presto voila what do you know now these vines in France and Europe were resistant to this particular La they gave it this really inventive name called 41b but every single one of those wines so if you enjoy chardonay cabinet Mero

Pino Noir Champagne Cognac all of those French Classics every single one of those is a descendant of native Texas plants if it wasn’t for Texas Vines there would be no French wine industry so I guess on behalf of Texas um you’re welcome