The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World by Christy Campbell

The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World

Christy Campbell

344 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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. Wha...

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