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Sort of related; Australia has the oldest grape vines. France's (and California's?) were wiped out by a pest. https://www.foodandwine.com/lifestyle/how-drink-

• contingencies 7y ago
  Yunnan in China also protected grapes over that period which were planted by French Jesuit missionaries in the 19th century.[0][1] "Somewhere in South America" was mentioned elsewhere in this thread: I suspect there are more locations. Basically, without actually reading any sources, my impression is that the event was severe but its totality was overstated. [0] https://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item/3943/new-gods-for-frontier-people-missionaries-in-northwest-yunnan https://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item/3943/new-gods-for-fro... [1] https://supchina.com/2019/07/23/grapes-of-god-smitten-the-transformation-of-cizhong-yunnan/ https://supchina.com/2019/07/23/grapes-of-god-smitten-the-tr...