TIL a French wine grape called Abouriou was nearly wiped out by phylloxera, and survived only because a farmer spotted…
TIL two real wine grapes — Maréchal Joffre and Maréchal Foch — are named after the WWI generals Joseph Joffre…
TIL a French wine grape called Gouget noir covered nearly 17,000 hectares before the phylloxera plague — by 2008 only…