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Triumph from the Laws of Disaster

Wine & Spirits

January, 1999

California's growers have used the most recent incidence of phylloxera to reassess their approach to terroir.

There have been dramatic changes in the typical California vineyard as we head towards the turn of the century. The 21st century California vineyard has been under development for the past decade and has been shaped to a large extent by a tiny bug – specifically the nasty grape root louse called phylloxera. Beginning in...