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Author Gale, George, 1943-

Title Dying on the vine : how phylloxera transformed wine / George Gale.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302).
Contents All your vines are fatally condemned to disappear, monsieur -- La defense: sand, submersion, and sulfiding -- La reconstitution -- The underground battle: grafting on American rootstock -- Phylloxera makes the European grand tour -- The bug goes south: new venues, same story -- The old Americans, or how the fox conquered Europe -- Phylloxera breaks out (twice) in California.
Summary Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine's worst enemy: phylloxera. In a book that is highly relevant for the wine industry today, George Gale describes the biological and economic disaster that unfolded when a tiny, root-sucking insect invaded the south of France in the 1860s, spread throughout Europe, and journeyed across oceans to Africa, South America, Australia, and California--laying waste to vineyards wherever it landed. He tells how scientists, viticulturalists, researchers, and others came together to save the world's vineyards and, with years.
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Subject Grapes -- Diseases and pests -- History -- 19th century.
Grapes -- Diseases and pests.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Grapes -- Diseases and pests -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Phylloxera.
Phylloxera.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title How phylloxera transformed wine
Other Form: Print version: Gale, George, 1943- Dying on the vine. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011 9780520265486 (DLC) 2010031697 (OCoLC)652743712
ISBN 9780520948853 electronic book
0520948858 electronic book
9780520265486
0520265483
1283277948
9781283277945