| 31. | Meanwhile, a new phylloxera epidemic had begun to destroy California's vineyards.
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| 32. | Only the discovery of phylloxera-resistant rootstocks enabled the wine business to survive.
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| 33. | Phylloxera attacks vine roots and kills the plant.
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| 34. | Bergman said he recently sold a 15-acre, phylloxera-riddled parcel.
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| 35. | Phylloxera probably first came to France around midcentury.
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| 36. | Yet the story of phylloxera is not over.
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| 37. | Most were abandoned after a phylloxera blight ravaged them in the late 19th century.
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| 38. | But what of the post-phylloxera wines?
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| 39. | 1876 : The phylloxera virus destroys more than half of France's vineyards.
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| 40. | He was thwarted by untimely freezes and phylloxera, the root-eating louse.
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