[Loch-Ruadh] History of April 1st

[Sluggy]

STEVE K ROURKE wrote:

> Any country where the people willing eat snails  is strange. Once upon a
> time the only good thing about them was their wine, but now California and
> Australia have better vintages than the French.

Part of that is due to, in 1880, a ravaging parasite louse, phylloxera,
was destroying the grapes in the Charante region of France.
Most of those vines were replaced with phylloxera resistant grapes
from..... DENISON, TEXAS!

http://www.denisontx.com/munson.htm

Sluggy!

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