Phylloxera

[wineguruchgo]

Hello Moderators,

I'm not really sure where to post this so please feel free to move it to whatever section you think is appropriate.

Much of this will be over some of the board members heads, so I figured I would post it here.

I read something of interest yesterday and wasn't sure how many on the board were aware of it.

It seems that there are many vines that are Phylloxera resistant because of the grafting that has developed over the past 100 years.

What I found interesting is "Infestations of plylloxera have recently been identified, so far on a limited scale, in California, New Zealand and England. And Australian vineyards, worryingly, are still 90% ungrafted".

Janice Robinson - Vines, Grapes and Wines

I don't know about you, but I'm sure our friends from down under are really nervous with it showing up in New Zealand.