It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word, ...

Alissa Bica Raines has 20+ years working in the food and beverage industry, including The Beverly Hills Hotel and 71 Above. She became an Introductory Sommelier in 2018, Certified in 2019, and ...

Around 150 years ago, France’s reputation as one of the world’s greatest producers of wine was under critical threat from a terrible blight. When scientists were finally able to determine the cause, ...

A French botanist made an adventurous journey across the United States in the 1880s in search of an American grapevine suitable for the vineyard soil back home. France was in the midst of the ...

One hundred fifty years ago, the Great French Wine Blight nearly wiped out an industry that today produces some 40 billion bottles of wine a year. The only solution was a radical fusion of species ...

The vineyard pest Grape Phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae) on a vine root. (Kevin Powell/Sugar Research Australia Limited) Walla Walla, Washington, has a louse in its house. Now the Washington ...

It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word, ...

Phylloxera is a microscopic, aphid-like insect that attacks grapevine roots. The tiny insect infestation nearly wiped out Europe’s vineyards in the late 19th century. The crisis was solved by grafting ...

It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word, ...

How a microscopic pest destroyed millions of vines — and how wine survived. Phylloxera is a microscopic, aphid-like insect that attacks grapevine roots. The tiny insect infestation nearly wiped out ...

When it comes to wine history, phylloxera is public enemy number one. In the late 19th century, it devastated an estimated 40% of France’s vineyards before spreading across Spain, Italy, Germany, ...