The Gugger Documents Cont.
Due to the grape louse (Phylloxera), a microscopic louse / aphid that lives on and eats roots of grapes, which can infest a vineyard from the soles of vineyard worker’s boots or naturally spreading from vineyard-to-vineyard by proximity, the bulk of local vineyards were destroyed with vignerons having to diversify to orchards, gardens and general farming.….
See: Norm’s Jottings
