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Wine 101: What is phylloxera, and how did it nearly destroy wine as we know it?

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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