Viticulture & Oenology
Updated
by Angela Mills
General sites and gateways
- Able Grape (Only supports browsers: Safari 2.0/3.0, Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7.0, Opera 9). Aims to be the world's most complete, authoritative, and up-to-date online source for any wine, enology, or viticultural information
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Just-drinks.com A drinks
trade site with free access to daily industry news, feature articles, research
and industry forums. Also provides a subscription service to market reports,
statistics, company profiles and more.
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Wine
State Library of South Australia. Information on their wine related materials,
with links to information on archival materials, pictorial materials, lists
of publications.
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Wine literature of the world
Created by the State Library of South Australia to highlight their large
collection of wine-related materials. Many items are available as digitised
images and include important wine records, information on grapes and wines
of the world, the history of the Australian wine industry, wine labels,
menus and more.
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WineDefinitions.com
Includes wine definitions, pronunciations and learning guides for viticultural
education.
Databases and wine search engines for viticulture and oenology
Access to fulltext electronic journals and databases from outside the University
network will require authentication with username and password. See
Authentication
for Library electronic resources.
- Agricola 1985- Database
of the US National Library of Agriculture and cooperative organisations.
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Annual
report collection A selection of annual reports of the top 500
companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
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Biosis
Previews 1980- Also called Biological Abstracts. International
biological database, includes viticulture, wine making, brewing, fermentation
etc.
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CAB
Abstracts 1910- International agricultural database which covers
grape and wine research.
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Current
Contents Connect Latest 4 years. Access to tables of contents and
bibliographic data of current issues of more than 8,000 scholarly journals.
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Pesticide
Properties Database US ARS database used as one authoritative source
of data for calculating pesticide movement in soils. Includes data such
as soil sorption and soil half-life.
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ScienceDirect
(Elsevier) Full text of journals published by Elsevier Science.
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SciFinder scholar (Chemical Abstracts) 1967- Available for University
staff and students only student/staff computers in all the Libraries. For installation instructions onto University
PCs, see this guide.
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Scopus
1966- Indexes a wide range of journal articles in all fields.
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VITIS-VEA: viticulture and
enology abstracts. An international German or English-language literature
database in the field of viticulture and enology. It covers grapevine morphology,
physiology, and biochemistry, soil science, genetics and grapevine breeding,
phytopathology and grapevine protection, cellar techniques, economics of
viticulture and enology, and the microbiology of wine.
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Web
of Science 1980- Indexes a wide range of journal articles in all
fields.
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Winefacts
Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation - Comprehensive statistical information
on the Australian and international wine sector, as well as wine sector
overviews and reports. Prepared statistical tables are available, and customised
data can be retrieved and downloaded into a spreadsheet program.
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Winefiles.org A database
on wine, winemaking and grapegrowing as well as business, technology and
history. Coverage is worldwide (1988-), with special emphasis on California
(1849-). Produced by the Sonoma County Wine Library.
Closures
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Cork Quality Council Provides a source
of information to the wine industry about the natural cork and quality
control procedures. Includes news on the progress of investigations into
cork taint.
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New Zealand Screwcap Wine Seal Initiative
The web page aims to provide information about the Initiative, the wineries
and wines involved, technical detail about screwcap wine seals, and performance
of wines sealed using screwcaps.
Grapevines
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Viticulture
(Michigan State University) The viticulture information centre within the
AgNIC alliance. Includes links to the web on viticulture, mainly
pertaining to the United States. Covers reference tools, botany, pests
& diseases, vineyard management.
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Viticulture
(Dept. of Agriculture, Western Australia) Includes information on pests
and diseases, growing grapevines in W.A. etc.
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VITIS-VEA:
viticulture and enology abstracts. An international German or English-language
literature database in the field of viticulture and enology. It covers
grapevine morphology, physiology, and biochemistry, soil science, genetics
and grapevine breeding, phytopathology and grapevine protection, cellar
techniques, economics of viticulture and enology, and the microbiology
of wine.
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Vitisearch created by Michel White.
Includes pictures of grape varieties.
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Yalumba Nursery Commercial
viticultural nursery site. Includes rootstock selector aid.
Diseases and pests
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Pests
of grape (Univ. of California Pest Management Guidelines). Fulltext.
Covers diseases, insects & mites, nematodes and weeds.
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Viticulture
- Pests (Michigan State University) The viticulture information centre
within the AgNIC alliance.
Health aspects of alcohol
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Alcohol: problems and solutions
(State Uni. of NY) Useful and balanced information on effects of alcohol
on health, advertising impact of alcohol, alcohol law and policy etc, and
links to other research sites.
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Alcohol
studies database Contains citations of over 55,000 documents
indexed by the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies since 1987.
The database focuses on scholarly and professional materials on beverage
alcohol, its use, and related consequences.
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Wine and
Health (Australian Wine Research Institute) Includes a list of published
papers, FAQs on wine and health, and links to other sources of information.
Law and regulations
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Winelaw
(U.S.) A division of the Wine Institute, this site contains information
gained from the US Federal Register and includes full-text files of relevant
Federal Regulations and Statutes.
Journals
The following list (not comprehensive) provides links to core journals
in wine science and also some trade journals. Access to full text
from the Library Catalogue is indicated. Publishers web sites are included,
however the level of access varies from tables of contents, abstracts of
articles, or sometimes fulltext of articles. Please make sure you check
the Library catalogue
to determine whether a print copy or electronic access to fulltext is available.
Tasting
Recognose: Aroma Reference
Techniques Australian site, includes articles on wine tasting by Richard
Gawel, lists of aroma descriptors, French, German and Italian translations
of wine tasting terms.
AUSTRALIA
General and trade sites
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Wine literature of the world
Created by the State Library of South Australia to highlight their large
collection of wine-related materials. Many items are available as digitised
images and include important wine records, information on grapes and wines
of the world, the history of the Australian wine industry, wine labels,
menus and more.
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Winepros
Commercial Web site (Len Evans, James Halliday et al). Includes wine industry
news, wine reviews, articles, and so on.
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Winetitles Includes vintage
reports, Australian Winery Search, and an overview of the Australian wine
industry (sales, exports, production etc).
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Wine World 2000 (Jim McMahon).
General information on wine regions and wineries in Australia.
Industry statistics
- Australian viticulture at a glance (Winefacts,
Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation) Key viticulture statistics for the Australian wine industry, including: crush in tonnes, production by key varieties and plantings, grape uses, zones (volume and percent growth).
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Australian wine grape production & winery intake : projections to....
(ABARE research report) Held in Library only at - Waite Journals 338.1099405
A.13. Also available online
- Australian wine sector at a glance (Winefacts, Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation) A comprehensive overview of the Australian wine industry, covering key statistical measures over the past five years, and including: Australia’s top 5 export destinations, top producing zones (volume), top varieties (volume).
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Global wine statistical compendium 1961-2003 / Glyn Wittwer and
Kym Anderson. Adelaide : Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation for the
Centre of Policy Studies, Monash Univesity and the Centre for International
Economic Studies, University of Adelaide, 2004.
Waite Reference, Waite Reserve, Waite External Collection 338.476632
W832g
Available online to University of Adelaide staff and students from
the Winefacts
database
- Global wine supply monitor Information on harvest tonnages and wine production since 1994 for the major wine producing countries in the world. Biannual. (Winefacts, Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation)
- Grape crush by state (Winefacts,
Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation) An overview of the total grape crush (tonnes) by State. Reported vintage 1972-2008.
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Sales of Australian wine and brandy by winemakers/Australian Bureau
of Statistics Held in Library at - Waite Journals 31(94) A93sal
Also available fulltext on the Australian
Bureau of Statistics web site, statistics section (use the Search menu
and type in sales AND wine)
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Vintage: the Australian Wine Yearbook The official industry annual,
containing detailed statistics on Australian and world wine production,
sales, exports, imports, consumption, areas under grapevine. Waite Reference
338.476632 V789
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Wine sales in Australia: monthly report / Winemakers' Federation of
Australia Waite Journals 663.2005 S163.2
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Winefacts
Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation - Comprehensive statistical information
on the Australian and international wine sector, as well as wine sector
overviews and reports. Prepared statistical tables are available, and customised
data can be retrieved and downloaded into a spreadsheet program.
- Winegrape water monitor (Winefacts, Australian
Wine & Brandy Corporation) Monthly update on the key water variables that may impact on the size of Australia’s winegrape crop - rainfall, system inflows, water storage levels, water allocations and future rainfall prospects and is scheduled for release as soon after allocation announcements by the State Water Authorities are made on 15th of each month
Research and education
Wine industry organisations
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Winemakers Federation of Australia
Includes extensive information on policies (Strategy 2025 and Marketing
Decade are available full-text), current projects (including a Wine Tourism
database), links to industry information and statistics and organisational
links.
Wineries (not meant to be an exhaustive list)
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Wolf
Blass (SA) Comprehensive Web site, includes tasting notes, technical
notes on wine styles and processes, information on vineyards, history and
more.
Canada
France
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French Wines Web
English version. Lists winegrowers and makers for each region and links
to their sites.
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Vitis Vinifera
In sometimes shaky but quite understandable English. Largely fulltext on
wines and winemaking in France. Includes a useful glossary of terms in
French and English and classification of appellations.
Germany
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German Wine Page (Peter Ruhrberg).
Excellent fulltext English site with extensive information about German
wines, winemakers, regions and links to other Web sites.
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GermanWines
Easy to use site with extensive links to wineries, cooperatives and information
about grape varieties, regions and other facts about German wines. In English.
Greece
- Greek wine Includes regions, styles, legislation, links to trade, producer and winery sites.
- Greekwinemakers.com Includes information about Greek grape varieties, appellations, regions etc.
Italy
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VinItaly Online A virtual
tour of Italy's wine exhibition, searchable by exhibitor or product. English
version.
New Zealand
South Africa
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VinPro(SA)/Wynboer web site South
Africa's wine farmer's representative organisation web site. Includes some
fulltext articles from its Wineland magazine.
South America
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Wines of Chile A guide to Chilean
wines, links to many winery pages, a wine forum and links to other Web
sites.
Spain
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Spanish wine page Comprehensive
site with information on regions, grape varieties, wineries, labels, vintage
charts, dealers and distributors etc.
USA
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Northwest Berry & Grape
InfoNet Information on Pacific Northwest pest management, soil and
plant nutrition, irrigation, tools for problem diagnosis, links to other
useful pest and IPM sites.
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Wine Institute Includes useful
links to health & society research, wine-specific research, US wine
law and American viticultural areas.
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Winelaw
(U.S.) A division of the Wine Institute, this site contains information
gained from the US federal Register and includes full-text files of relevant
Federal Regulations and Statutes.
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Wines.Com On U.S. wines,
includes a useful searchable database of wine terms and topics. Also links
to winery sites, trade press and news.
Other countries
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Wines from Austria
(Austrian Wine Marketing Board) Includes regions, grape varieties, law, statistics.
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Wines of Slovenia
Comprehensive site which includes information about labelling and classification,
wine regions, winegrowers, grape varieties and more.
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