Wine 101: What is phylloxera, and how did it nearly destroy wine as we know it?
by Michael Austin, Chicago Tribune
Oct 09, 2017
3 minutes
It's too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera.
Can you imagine that word, stylized in a jagged font and splayed across both heads of a double-bass-drum set? No umlauts needed. It looks cool, it sounds cool (pronounced "fil-LOX-er-uh") and it contains an "x," the most important letter in any metal band's name, even surpassing the awesomeness that replacing an "s" with a "z" provides. Heavy metal, death metal,
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