Aramon is a European wine grape best known not for its wine quality but for its original use as a parent in producing the hybrid rootstock AXR-1. AXR-1 was the predominately used rootstock in California's coastal counties during the middle 1900's until a new biotype of the Phylloxera root aphid defeated it in the late 1980's. AXR-1 is no longer recommended for planting in California, and never was recommended in Europe. The Aramon, however, is grown in southern France, producing ordinary wines. (Wine/Grapes)