How to Use phylloxera in a Sentence

phylloxera

noun

• But a phylloxera outbreak in the 1970s all but wiped out the island’s vineyards.
  — Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2023
• This vineyard, though, is on sandy soils, in which phylloxera cannot survive.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• But phylloxera arrived in Sicily in the 1930s, and war shortly after.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 July 2016
• Back in the late 19th century, the vineyards of Europe were devastated by the phylloxera aphid, which preyed on their roots.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2017
• The wine is made from grapes farmed organically at some of the highest altitudes in Italy, and some from low-yielding pre-phylloxera vines as old as 140 years.
  — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
• There were vineyards down here, before phylloxera struck.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• Mondeuse is an old grape variety that was grown before the phylloxera in several parts of eastern France.
  — Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• Back then, France, which had been devastated by phylloxera, an aphid that preys on grape roots, began buying wine from Etna.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 July 2016
• Little can grow in layers of volcanic ash and pumice, including the phylloxera pest that destroyed most of Europe’s vineyards in the 19th century.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Since the 19th century, when a plague of phylloxera ravaged most of Europe’s grapevines, the solution was to graft the European vines onto American roots, which are immune to the aphid.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• The white timorasso was on the verge of extinction, having all but disappeared during the phylloxera.
  — Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• The popularity of Madeira, which comes from the Portuguese island of the same name, plummeted in the late 19th century with the arrival of phylloxera, a ravenous aphid that ravaged vineyards throughout Europe.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2016
• During the 19th century, many vineyards in Western European countries like France and Spain suffered from phylloxera, a microscopic aphid that attacks the grapevines’ roots and causes rot.
  — Matthew Sedacca, The Atlantic, 17 July 2017
• The Penedès region lost many red wine varieties to the scare, and afterwards, wineries planted white varieties that had been grafted with phylloxera-resistant American rootstock.
  — Matthew Sedacca, The Atlantic, 17 July 2017
• Pesticides provided a short-term solution, but Espino was the genetic scientist who identified a strain of Cuban black tobacco that was resistant to this infestation, enabling the country to overcome its phylloxera moment.
  — Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024