Accordingly, in the vintners' perspective, their vineyards were destroyed not by the phylloxera, but by the government agencies.
Individual vintners left almost no direct trails in the government files on the vine louse.
To the vintners the symptoms of the grapevine disease looked familiar and unspecific.
The vintners' reactions to what in effect was their temporary expropriation appear to have been robust at least occasionally.
Publicans and vintners, as well as individual burghers, now frequently appealed to representatives of the state to defend their interests.
The vintners were not convinced of the existence of an object phylloxera "pest," visible only in a space appropriated from them.
The phylloxera was not visible in the vintner's vineyard.
At stake between the vintners and the government agencies was the property and definition of the vineyard.
