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 "id": "massale-selection",
 "type": "practice",
 "names": {
  "name": "Massal selection",
  "aliases": [
   "Sélection massale",
   "Massale"
  ]
 },
 "region": [
  "burgundy",
  "world"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "kind": "planting"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Taking cuttings from many vines in a block you already trust, instead of ordering one numbered clone from a nursery. You keep the block's variation, and whatever virus it carries.",
  "how": "A grower walks the old block at harvest, marks the vines that ripen well and crop lightly, and grafts from them. The pay-off is diversity inside one vineyard; the risk is leafroll and fanleaf, which is precisely what clonal certification was invented to stop."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "the-dijon-numbers",
   "as": "The alternative, and how it won the nursery trade.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "mount-eden",
   "as": "A selection that travelled this way.",
   "rel": "clone"
  },
  {
   "to": "abel-clone",
   "as": "And one whose travel was less orthodox.",
   "rel": "clone"
  },
  {
   "to": "bien-nacido",
   "as": "Where certified budwood gets grown at scale instead.",
   "rel": "vineyard"
  }
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  "s:wp-ampelography"
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   "tier": "tradition"
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "Taking cuttings from many vines in a block you already trust, instead of ordering one numbered clone from a nursery. You keep the block's variation, and whatever virus it carries.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "burgundy",
   "name": "Burgundy",
   "country": "France",
   "note": "the Côte d'Or and its neighbours; the grape's home ground and its reference set"
  },
  {
   "key": "world",
   "name": "The world",
   "country": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs everywhere pinot noir is grown"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "the-dijon-numbers",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The numbers on the vine",
   "as": "The alternative, and how it won the nursery trade.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "mount-eden",
   "type": "clone",
   "name": "Mount Eden selection",
   "as": "A selection that travelled this way.",
   "rel": "clone"
  },
  {
   "to": "abel-clone",
   "type": "clone",
   "name": "Abel clone",
   "as": "And one whose travel was less orthodox.",
   "rel": "clone"
  },
  {
   "to": "bien-nacido",
   "type": "vineyard",
   "name": "Bien Nacido",
   "as": "Where certified budwood gets grown at scale instead.",
   "rel": "vineyard"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "id": "s:wp-pinot-noir",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Pinot noir",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=197760",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371302191",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-ampelography",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Ampelography",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=1106293",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371070907",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  "text.how": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  }
 },
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 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "bien-nacido",
   "type": "vineyard",
   "name": "Bien Nacido",
   "as": "What a budwood block is for.",
   "rel": "practice"
  },
  {
   "from": "abel-clone",
   "type": "clone",
   "name": "Abel clone",
   "as": "The practice this story sits at the edge of.",
   "rel": "practice"
  },
  {
   "from": "calera-selection",
   "type": "clone",
   "name": "Calera selection",
   "as": "The practice, and its grey areas.",
   "rel": "practice"
  },
  {
   "from": "mount-eden",
   "type": "clone",
   "name": "Mount Eden selection",
   "as": "How a selection like this moves: cuttings, not catalogues.",
   "rel": "practice"
  },
  {
   "from": "swan-selection",
   "type": "clone",
   "name": "Swan selection",
   "as": "How it spread.",
   "rel": "practice"
  },
  {
   "from": "merry-edwards",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Merry Edwards",
   "as": "How the selection bearing her name moves.",
   "rel": "practice"
  },
  {
   "from": "fps",
   "type": "org",
   "name": "Foundation Plant Services",
   "as": "The alternative, and its risks.",
   "rel": "practice"
  },
  {
   "from": "the-dijon-numbers",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The numbers on the vine",
   "as": "The older way, still practised.",
   "rel": "practice"
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}