Wood Decay Disease affects 12% of the vines in France?

WINE TALK
#1

If true this is more than a little scary:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/bumper-french-wine-grape-harvest-clouded-by-threat-of-wood-decay-9794605.html

#2

Well, not quite as scary as Ebola, but yeah, I see what you’re saying.
In some ways, this mirrors the emerald ash borer’s effect on American ash trees, except that ash trees have about 100% mortality.

#3

I wonder if that’s the same problem they’ve been having up in Virginia:

YOUNG VINE DECLINE: ESCA, PETRI DISEASE, BLACK MEASLES (BLACK GOO)
http://www.villaappalaccia.com/esca.html