Every morning, the presentation of a forgotten grape variety

This year, we are replanting Gros Verdot on the estate, to have the chance of rediscovering the taste of this cousin of Petit Verdot. A late-ripening grape variety, certainly of interest in this era of global warming. Photo taken from the Traité pratique de viticulture (1900) by Joseph Daurel, scanned and available on the excellent Babordnum of the Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin