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Farming, but the harvest gets to become wine and judge you back.
means The science and craft of growing grapevines, especially for making wine.
from Latin vitis (vine) grafted onto culture, from colere, to cultivate or tend — the same root that grows agriculture and civilization itself.
Not winemakingThat is viniculture; viticulture stops at the grape.
Ancient rootsCultivated grapevines date back over 8,000 years.
Terroir mattersSoil, slope and weather shape flavor more than the grape.
Phylloxera plagueA tiny louse nearly erased Europe's vineyards in the 1800s.