How to Use phylloxera in a Sentence
phylloxera
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This vineyard, though, is on sandy soils, in which phylloxera cannot survive.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 21 June 2018
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But phylloxera arrived in Sicily in the 1930s, and war shortly after.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 July 2016
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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
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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
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There were vineyards down here, before phylloxera struck.
—The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The white timorasso was on the verge of extinction, having all but disappeared during the phylloxera.
—Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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