Word: phylloxera
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...acre, compared with as much as $400,000 in France's Bordeaux region. The country has a host of grape-hospitable regions whose weather remains remarkably stable from year to year. Chilean grapevines, of mostly transplanted French and some German stock, are unscathed by the Phylloxera that devastated Californian and European vines in the 19th century. With an annual output of some 70 million gal., Chile ranks 13th among the world's wine producers. Los Vascos, with a yearly capacity of 423,000 gal., is unusual among the country's vineyards in that most of its wines are exported...