***CORRECTION: The soils in the Mosel valley are slate. Phylloxera does not like slate soils. For some reason I say schist in this episode.
Welcome back! This is a subject that comes up again and again every episode and that is Phylloxera, but what is it? This episode we are going to deep dive into the history of the French Wine Blight. Where this little bug came from, what it is up to today and how we adapted.
My Sources for this show are:
The Oxford Companion to Wine, 4th Edition by Jancis Robinson.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54122-0
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Until next week, I hope you drink something delicious!