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Percent of the vineyards in Washington State that are planted on their own roots, not on phylloxera-tolerant rootstock. Perhaps because of the state’s sandy soils and extremely cold winter climate, the deadly insect phylloxera has never successfully established itself in the state. (In the late nineteenth century, phylloxera decimated most of the vineyards in the world, including those in California and Oregon).

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