Accordingly, in the vintners' perspective, their vineyards were destroyed not by the phylloxera, but by the government agencies.
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Individual vintners left almost no direct trails in the government files on the vine louse.
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To the vintners the symptoms of the grapevine disease looked familiar and unspecific.
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The vintners' reactions to what in effect was their temporary expropriation appear to have been robust at least occasionally.
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Publicans and vintners, as well as individual burghers, now frequently appealed to representatives of the state to defend their interests.
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The vintners were not convinced of the existence of an object phylloxera "pest," visible only in a space appropriated from them.
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The phylloxera was not visible in the vintner's vineyard.
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At stake between the vintners and the government agencies was the property and definition of the vineyard.
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The records indicate that some vintners and grape nurseries complied, either due to reimbursements or to agreement.
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Avintnerwho took his grapevines to the pharmacist for inspection received threats.
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For each wine-growing area a permanent supervisory office and experts were nominated who were compelled to stay in contact with the local vintners.
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The phylloxera commission in 1875 recommended building a network of surveillance based on cooperation between vintners, police and network officers.
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The new entity "pest" as a specific, causal agent external to the grapevine plant existed in a conceptual space that was unconnected to the vintners' field of knowledge.
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We must market wine as a quality product, and we must also give vintners the opportunity to do so.
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I pay tribute to those in the drinks trade —the on-trade, vintners, off-licences and brewers—for coming together to help to support the efforts to cut casualties.
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