However, the vines had an unwelcome visitor: Phylloxera — a type of aphid. These are essentially aphids that attack a grapevine. These didn’t exist in Europe, apparently and grapes from the ...

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Old vines, still producing fabulous flavours That all comes down to phylloxera. Phylloxera is an aphid that devastated Europe ...

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