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Vineyard Techniques Now More Valued in Wine Production

Wine Business

January, 1999

Andy Beckstoffer, a long-time Napa grape grower and owner of Beckstoffer Vineyards, remembers when planting a vineyard was a much simpler project. “In the early ’70s, however it was done before is what we did,” said Beckstoffer. “That was the standard.” Growers used the supposedly phylloxera-resistant AXR #1 rootstock and planted Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay...