According to Eric Asimov, in his May 3rd, 2013 column in the New York Times, "The top producers show the grape’s potential, and the land itself, with sandy, granitic soils, sometimes permits growers to plant vines on their own roots because phylloxera, the ravenous root-eating aphid that devastated European vineyards a century ago, does not thrive in sandy soils."
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