How To Use Phylloxera In A Sentence
- It was actually one of the first regions in Spain to experience mass-production in the 19th century, when its proximity to Barcelona and the French market whose wine industry was struggling under devastating effects of the vine-eating louse phylloxera provided a ready market for its wine. Iberia's Hidden Gems
- They had replanted their land with vines after the phylloxera disaster, until a glut of cheap wine flooded the market, and they could no longer sell their only product.
- Prum sees the massive bridge and roadway project as the biggest threat to the area since the great, late-19th century phylloxera insect epidemic that ravaged European vineyards. Massive Bridge Project Divides German Winemakers
- The effects of the vine-eating louse phylloxera and the construction of the Paris-to-Marseilles railway line in the mid-19th century, which opened Paris up to wines from farther afield, conspired to hit its production. The Draw of Chablis
- While growing succeeded there for decades, a plague of the plant louse phylloxera, followed by Prohibition and then the Depression, set the region back for years.
- Recession in the 1880s was compounded by phylloxera, which swept aside not only vines but many poorer farmers.
- Read More Drinking Now: Synchronicity Its downfall came in the form of two fungal diseases that ripped through the vineyards—first oidium, which at the height of its powers, effects grape ripening; followed by phylloxera, a root-feeding aphid that destroys vines. The Grape of Good Hope
- In 1863 it partially recovered, under the free use of sulphur; but now it has been ravaged by the more dangerous phylloxera, which is spreading far faster than Mr. Henry Vizetelly supposes. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
- In addition, Chile is excitingly free from phylloxera, the bane of the wine universe, allowing it to produce versatile, forthright wines that are a pure and direct expression of single grape varieties.
- Read More Drinking Now: Synchronicity Its downfall came in the form of two fungal diseases that ripped through the vineyards—first oidium, which at the height of its powers, effects grape ripening; followed by phylloxera, a root-feeding aphid that destroys vines. The Grape of Good Hope
