It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word, ...
Phylloxera is the aphid-like insect that nearly destroyed the European wine industry in the late 1800s. It is a threat most of the world’s top wine-growing regions have faced. Now the alarm has been ...
“Phylloxera is having a significant impact in the Yarra Valley,” laments Sandra de Pury of Yeringberg Winery, “Despite the best efforts of wineries and organizations to contain it, the louse is now ...
Sam Hellyer, head of wine and spirits at Chiswick Auctions, counts 10 years at Oddbins as part of a varied résumé where he headed up the Fine Wine branch in Oxford. Here, he looks at the similarities ...
Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 56, No. 422 (December 2005), pp. 3029-3031 (3 pages) The purpose of life is its continuation: survival is the reason things live. Here we explore this 'basic' of ...
A university researcher is training sniffer dogs to detect pest and disease in vineyards. Dogs have traditionally been trained to sniff out drugs, explosives and even missing people, but their new ...
It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word, ...
It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word, ...