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Saturday, June 24, 2023

The Natufians: The culture most likely to have domesticated vitis sylvestris

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Given the location (The Levant) and timing (11,000 years ago) espoused in the Dong, et al ., study, it is most likely the Natufian Culture t...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

The domestication of vitis vinifera: The physical environment

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According to Dong, et al ., t wo variants of the wild grape vitis sylvestris were simultaneously domesticated in the Caucasus and Western A...
Monday, June 5, 2023

Georgia is not the source of all European wine grape varieties; the Levant is

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The commonly held belief was that the wild grapevine vitis sylvestris was domesticated at a single point and spread to the rest of the world...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Grapevine domestication: A tale of two centers and selected traits

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Dong, et al ., (Dual domestications and origin of traits in grapevine evolution, Science, 3/3/23) have postulated, based on their study resu...
Monday, May 15, 2023

The case for dual domestication of vitis vinifera, as per Dong, et al.

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The recent Dong, et al ., study has upended the conventional wisdom of a single-point  vitis vinifera  domestication somewhere in the Caucas...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Rewriting the story of ancient grapes: Establishing genetic populations and the story of V. sylvestris

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A recently published grapevine genetic study (Y. Dong,  et al ., Dual domestications and origin of traits in grapevine evolution, Science 37...
Monday, April 24, 2023

ChatGPT on the comments on the Kerin O’Keefe article on decanting

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I recently posted a Kerin O’Keefe article on wine decanting to my personal Facebook page as well as to the Barolo and Barbaresco Facebook gr...