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How the World's Vineyards Were Saved
The Botanist and the Vintner examines wines greatest crisis
Kim Marcus
Issue: June 15, 2005
The biological costs of the European conquest of the New World are well-known, the most devastating of them being diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis and malaria, which decimated the defenseless native populations.
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