practiceMassal selection
also: Sélection massale · Massale
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 it is done Tradition
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.
Facts
| kind | planting |
|---|---|
| region | Burgundy, The world |
| confidence | medium · updated 2026-09-16 |
Its kin
storyThe numbers on the vineThe alternative, and how it won the nursery trade.and of this page it says: The older way, still practised.cloneMount Eden selectionA selection that travelled this way.and of this page it says: How a selection like this moves: cuttings, not catalogues.cloneAbel cloneAnd one whose travel was less orthodox.and of this page it says: The practice this story sits at the edge of.vineyardBien NacidoWhere certified budwood gets grown at scale instead.and of this page it says: What a budwood block is for.
Who points back
clone · says of this pageCalera selectionThe practice, and its grey areas.clone · says of this pageSwan selectionHow it spread.person · says of this pageMerry EdwardsHow the selection bearing her name moves.organization · says of this pageFoundation Plant ServicesThe alternative, and its risks.
Sources
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.