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From: dlb@druxv.UUCP (Dave Bauer)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: California Phylloxera Problems?
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 12:39:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 12:39:30 1985
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An article showed up in the Denver Post last week alluding to problems
being experienced near Monterey with a new strain of phylloxera, the
pest that destroyed the European wine industry a hundred years ago.
Apparently this new strain thrives on the American "phylloxera-resistent"
root stock, and is already causing several vineyards to be replanted.

Does anyone know how widespread this problem is, or whether we should start
seriously worrying about a mass grape kill in California in the next decade?
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