Ran across a new word this morning while reading up on the other white wine varietal (Arbois) which is allowed to be planted in the Vouvray appellation: ampelography (< Greek αμπελος 'vine' + γραφος 'writing'). "[T]he field of botany concerned with the identification and classification of grapevines" (link).
I never realized that they did genetic fingerprinting of vines!
It's big money. I was amazed when I attended a meeting of an arachnological society and discovered that black widows were the best known species of spiders because insurance companies had sponsored research because of claims from the middle of the last century involving men in outhouses being bitten by said species.
