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| #809555 in Books | Workman Publishing | Model: WMP978156512528 | 2006-03-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.98 x1.00 x5.19l,.14 | File type: PDF | 344 pages | Gripping and intoxicating | Brings to life one of the most significant, though little-known, events in the history of wine||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An important, multi-faceted history|By mrthinkndrink|Every wine aficionado knows the broad-brush story of phylloxera: microscopic louse, kills grapevines, travels on American vines to Europe in mid-nineteenth century, nearly destroys French, Italian and Spanish wine industries, after much angst and many false starts a solution of grafting European vinifera vines onto phylloxera|.com |In the mid-1860s, after countless centuries of bearing the fruit that would become wine, French grapevines began to wither and die in ever increasing numbers and no one knew why. It started in southeastern France, in the Rhone Valley, as Christy Campbell
In the mid-1860s, grapevines in southeastern France inexplicably began to wither and die. Jules-Émile Planchon, a botanist from Montpellier, was sent to investigate. He discovered that the vine roots were covered in microscopic yellow insects. What they were and where they had come from was a mystery. The infestation advanced with the relentlessness of an invading army and within a few years had spread across Europe, from Portugal to the Crimea. The wine ind...
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