In his book Dying on the Vine - How Phylloxera Transformed Wine—author George Gale tells of how, in 1866, vineyard leaves within St.-Martin-de-Crau near Arles, in the French Rhone Valley ...

Well, Phylloxera also came after the French grapes varieties planted in California and many wine grape growers were losing their vines to this pest. But since this same thing happened to Georges ...

Grape phylloxera, scientifically known as Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, is a significant pest affecting grapevines worldwide. This tiny insect can damage both the roots and leaves of grapevines ...

In the 1890s the fortunes of Bordeaux wine were restored. The breakthrough came when plant scientists discovered that phylloxera didn’t consume the roots of American grapevines–only the leaves.