Jeff did a fine job with his tribute site - thanks for the link.
Sound like French Warfare just before 9/11
Attack of the Wine Bugs
by Tara Weingarten | Jul 02 '01
Vineyard manager Dave Pirio scans the perimeter of the 53-acre PlumpJack Winery in Napa Valley, Calif., looking for the enemy. Kneeling low to the ground, he flips over big, shiny grape leaves one by one, hunting for the dreaded glassy-winged sharpshooter. The half-inch-long, muddy-brown insect has single-handedly decimated 30 percent of the wine crop in southern California's Temecula Valley over the last four years, and now threatens to wreak similar havoc here in the nation's premier wine region. "It would be absolutely devastating to our industry if that bug got in here," says Pirio's boss, PlumpJack general manager John ......
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Out for the day with the docs.......BBL
This is the only article but it has started up again this year!