![]() He thought, however, that they must have been planted around 1820." After dissecting the vines, Boubals confirmed that they were indeed prephylloxeric, because they hadn't been grafted and were very old, but he couldn't give me a precise age because the vines were hollow. "At the time," recalled Marionnet, "I immediately wanted to have the vines examined by the world's greatest living ampelographer, Denis Boubals of INRA. ![]() ![]() The man didn't know precisely when they were planted but thought it was sometime between 18. "In 1998, an old vigneron came to Henry Marionnet, the producer many credit with having put the wines of Sologne on the map and on restaurant lists, and proposed that Marionnet take possession of 36 ares (0.9 acre) of pre-phylloxera Romorantin.
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