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The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World
Christy Campbell
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| #547518 in Books | Workman Publishing | Model: WMP978156512528 | 2006-03-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.98 x1.00 x5.19l,.14 | File type: PDF | 344 pages | Gripping and intoxicating | Brings to life one of the most significant, though little-known, events in the history of wine||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Required Reading|By DvddSky|This should definitely be read by anyone interested in grapes and wine, and even the laymen, though it may be difficult to understand at times (I may have written viticulture and enology). The Botanist and the Vintner partially chronicles the period when biology really took hold as a science. While this book details at length the decades long strug|.com |In the mid-1860s, after countless centuries of bearing the fruit that would become wine, French grapevines began to wither and die in ever increasing numbers and no one knew why. It started in southeastern France, in the Rhone Valley, as Christy Campbell
In the mid-1860s, grapevines in southeastern France inexplicably began to wither and die. Jules-Émile Planchon, a botanist from Montpellier, was sent to investigate. He discovered that the vine roots were covered in microscopic yellow insects. What they were and where they had come from was a mystery. The infestation advanced with the relentlessness of an invading army and within a few years had spread across Europe, from Portugal to the Crimea. The wine ind...
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