Phylloxera Part 1
Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran. When tasting at a winery or reading a wine book or webpage, I am certain many of you have seen references to phylloxera. Today I thought I would start a series of programs explaining what phylloxera is and what it has to do with wine.
Right around the late 1850’s a mysterious blight struck the vineyards of