Calif Historic Vines...

Interesting article by Madelaine Puckett in today's WineFolly:
JacksonStationHistoricVines

describing AustinGoheen's exploration into the old/historic vines at the abandoned JacksonExperimentalStation in the late 1800's (I, of course, followed those vines from the very start!!) and how those vines became part of Calif's recent grapevine history.
Interesting to me on the list of those Jackson-rescued vines is Mondeuse. Originally, Goheen misread the old map from the UC/Berkeley library archives and identified it as Refosco. It was only in the last 10 yrs that that mistake was rectified thru DNA typing. So much of the "Refosco" that was planted in Calif is, in fact, Mondeuse. Which isn't a "bad" thing I might add.
Wonder if Steve&Carole's Mondeuse originally came from that Jackson vine??
Tom

Wonder if Steve&Carole's Mondeuse originally came from that Jackson vine??
Tom

Carole confirms that their Mondeuse comes from that original Jackson vine. And that it was her lab that did the DNA that confirmed it as Mondeuse.
So...when you open your next L-M Mondeuse...you're drinking history...plus a damn fine expression of Mondeuse.
Tom

[Robin Garr]

This is fascinating, Tom. Thanks for posting it, and kudos for clarifying that you've been following all this since the very start.

This is fascinating, Tom. Thanks for posting it, and kudos for clarifying that you've been following all this since the very start.

Surely, Robin....you never had any doubt about that, did you??
Tom