The Greek solution to high wind and grape growing

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The Greek solution to high wind and grape growing

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In Greece in one of the most windswept wine regions, not even olive trees can grow. Vines survive only because they are trained so low that they look like large doughnuts lying flat on the ground with grapes crouching even lower in the center hole. Each vine is called stefani (crown) it will grow that way for 20 years after which time the trunk becomes strong enough to withstand the whipping wind, and the vine can be trained upright in the normal manner.

source page 19 of Karen MacNeil The WINE BIBLE 2001 ISBN 1-56305-434-5 workman publishing company New York

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