Who's the Dad?

[Craig Camp]

Vouillamoz, who spent a year working at the University of California, Davis, in the lab of noted grapevine geneticist Carole Meredith, and Schneider tested DNA samples of Nebbiolo against samples of DNA from more than 1,500 grape cultivars gathered from countries around the world.

[Mabelline]

This is an entirely serious question, Craig, if I can intrude on your wineknowledge...have the gene researchers of grape varieties found like the ancient varieties, where their locus originated, and what were like say Roman Empire or Moor origins? I know that people like the A.& M. sea research teams have retrieved wine residues from ancient wrecks, so I was wondering what you have found to be authenticated grape varieties from an ancient source? When you read the old literature, you come across all these famous ancient vintages, and I know there has been wine dna'd from Crete and Thera. I don't even know what I'm asking except can we trace a line to what kept Homer happy?