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(botany, wine) The discipline within botany concerned with the taxonomy of cultivars in the grapevine genus, Vitis..
She is the American apostle of Pierre Galet, a Frenchman whose internationally recognized contribution to ampelography, or the science of classifying grape vines, rests on identifying leaf design and the appearance of a vine's growing tips.
Scientists are just now devising a genetic test to distinguish one rootstock from another. Until they do, the only recourse is the arcane art of ampelography, in which the vines are identified by physical appearance. Like art authenticators, ampelographers practice a craft that they would have others think is a science.
The mainstay of grapevine identification is the science of ampelography, and manuals of ampelography (Galet 1971) are the major resource for grapevine identification.
Use ampelography when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ampelography means (botany, wine) The discipline within botany concerned with the taxonomy of cultivars in the grapevine genus, Vitis..
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She is the American apostle of Pierre Galet, a Frenchman whose internationally recognized contribution to ampelography, or the science of classifying grape vines, rests on identifying leaf design and the appearance of a vine's growing tips.
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