Rootstock `8909-05` is a cross of Vitis rupestris `A. de Serres`.times.Muscadinia rotundifolia `Cowart`. This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of grape rootstock with resistance to a broad array of soil-borne nematodes including root-knot, dagger, citrus, lesion, and ring nematodes. The rootstock also resists grape phylloxera. Rootstock `8909-05` is one of the rare sources of resistance to ring nematode. The rootstock has extremely strong and broad nematode resistance.