Pie Franco: ungrafted vines growing on their own roots, the way every vine in Europe grew before phylloxera rewrote the map.
Own-rooted viticulture — pie franco in Spanish — is wine's most sacred agricultural conversation. The tiny number of surviving ungrafted plots in the Canary Islands, parts of Chile, and specific sandy European soils that phylloxera couldn't penetrate produce wines of unusual directness and terroir transparency. The plants have a relationship with the soil that grafted rootstock fundamentally changes. The premium heavyweight tee carries that historical weight: 100% combed ring-spun cotton at 6.5 oz/yd², regular fit, side-seamed. A wine history collector tee for the terroir purist.
