Ungrafted
If a vine is called ungrafted, it means that the vine consists of one plant from the roots to the upper part. Meanwhile, this is - due to the phylloxera plague in the 19th century - a rarity. The pest spread from the USA to Europe and South Africa, destroying millions of vines. In order to prevent such a catastrophe from happening again, people started grafting the vines. In this process, the upper part of a vine (scion) is grafted onto an American rootstock (rootstock) that has proven resistant to phylloxera. Grafting also brings greater resistance to other diseases and is now used on 90 percent of all vines worldwide - making wines from rootless vines very special.