Once Again, California Faces Devastating Vine Malady

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Issue: May 31, 2000

May 31st, 2000 Once Again, California Faces Devastating Vine Malady Insect scourge threatens replay of '90s vineyard disaster California's vineyards are facing a deadly vine menace that poses a potentially catastrophic threat to the state's wine industry, on a par with the widespread replanting caused by the phylloxera root louse in the early 1990s.

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