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
- 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.
- Wine State Library of South Australia. Information on their wine related materials, with links to information on archival materials, pictorial materials, lists of publications.
- 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.
- WineDefinitions.com Includes wine definitions, pronunciations and learning guides for viticultural education.
Databases and wine search engines for viticulture and oenologyAccess to fulltext electronic journals and databases from outside the University network will require authentication with username and password. Current University of Adelaide students and staff are able to access e-resources from outside the University network using their University username (eg a1234567) and password. For registered contract users including PIRSA/SARDI, the Library barcode and last name must be used. Please contact the Waite Library if you need help with authentication. A B C D-O P Q R S T U V W X-Z
AANRO:Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online Database
Incorporates Australian Bibliography of Agriculture (ABOA), Australian Rural Research in Progress (ARRIP) and Streamline.
Includes research in progress and other unpublished research information (grey literature) that is very difficult or impossible to find using internet search engines such as Google. In addition, AANRO provides a listing of all research being undertaken or has been undertaken previously in each drainage division, agro-ecological region, catchment, state or territory and is the only service that provides a drill-down mechanism to find this information.
Access: Freely available to all Agricola
Database of the US National Library of Agriculture and cooperative organisations.Includes over 3 million article citations to material acquired by the U.S. National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. Subjects include all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1970- Agriculture & Natural Resources
Australian agricultural databases. Archival databases only.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Databases included are:
ANR Index 2000-2007
ANR Index Archive 1975-2007
ANR Research (Formerly ARRIP - Current and recently completed research) 2000-2007
ANR Research Archive (Formerly CARRP - Completed research projects) 1984-2007 Biosis Previews
Indexes articles from life sciences journals and items from conferences, meetings and symposia from 1980 onwards.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restricts access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: 1980+
Updated: Weekly CAB Abstracts
Index with abstracts to over 11,000 journals as well as books, conferences, reports, theses etc. Subjects covered include animal sciences, veterinary sciences, dairy science and technology, plant breeding and genetics, crop sciences, crop protection, environmental and natural resources, forestry, post-harvest science and technology, agricultural biotechnology, biodegradation, agricultural engineering, agricultural economics, rural development and sociology, leisure, recreation and tourism, human nutrition, tropical diseases and medical parasitology.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: 1910-
Current Contents Connect
Current Contents Connect is a service by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) which provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data of current issues of more than 8,000 science, social sciences, arts and humanities leading scholarly journals. It has a useful email alert facility which allows weekly update search results to be emailed to you automatically.
Time span: Last 4 years
Updated: Daily 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. ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Full text of journals published by Elsevier Science. SciFinder scholar (Chemical Abstracts)
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to Adelaide University staff and students, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. You can use the database on student/staff computers in all the Libraries. Access from outside the Library in University Departments needs installation of software -- follow the link for instructions. Access is not available outside the University network.
Installation instructions
Help guide
Time span: Full searching from 1967 onward, and more limited searching from 1947-1966.
Updated: Daily Scopus
Scopus and Web of science are large databases covering science and other subjects and allowing cited reference searching (finding articles that have cited a given article). The 1980 onwards date range of Web of science makes it the more useful database for cited reference searching.
Scopus and Web of science can also be searched by topic but they lack the depth of coverage of a biological database such as Biosis previews.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community (including staff belonging to SAMHS and PIRSA/SARDI), for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span:1996 onwards for cited reference searching and 1966 onwards for topic searching. VITIS-VEA
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.
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1969- Web of Science
Comprising Science Citation Index; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Web of Science indexes a wide range of journal articles in all fields. As well as standard topic searches, it allows searches for articles that have cited a given author, article, book or other item.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: 1980+
Updated: Weekly 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.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network. 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.
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1988+ Closures- 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.
- 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- 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.
- Viticulture (Dept. of Agriculture, Western Australia) Includes information on pests and diseases, growing grapevines in W.A. etc.
- 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.
- Vitisearch created by Michel White. Includes pictures of grape varieties.
- Yalumba Nursery Commercial viticultural nursery site. Includes rootstock selector aid.
Diseases and pests- Pests of grape (Univ. of California Pest Management Guidelines). Fulltext. Covers diseases, insects & mites, nematodes and weeds.
- Viticulture - Pests (Michigan State University) The viticulture information centre within the AgNIC alliance.
Health aspects of alcohol- 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.
- 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.
- 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- 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.
JournalsThe 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. TastingRecognose: 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.
AUSTRALIAGeneral and trade sites- 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.
- Winepros Commercial Web site (Len Evans, James Halliday et al). Includes wine industry news, wine reviews, articles, and so on.
- Winetitles Includes vintage reports, Australian Winery Search, and an overview of the Australian wine industry (sales, exports, production etc).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
- 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)
- 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
- Wine sales in Australia: monthly report / Winemakers' Federation of Australia Waite Journals 663.2005 S163.2
- 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 educationWine industry organisations- 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)- Wolf Blass (SA) Comprehensive Web site, includes tasting notes, technical notes on wine styles and processes, information on vineyards, history and more.
Canada
France- French Wines Web English version. Lists winegrowers and makers for each region and links to their sites.
- 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- German Wine Page (Peter Ruhrberg). Excellent fulltext English site with extensive information about German wines, winemakers, regions and links to other Web sites.
- 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 - VinItaly Online A virtual tour of Italy's wine exhibition, searchable by exhibitor or product. English version.
New Zealand
South Africa- 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- Wines of Chile A guide to Chilean wines, links to many winery pages, a wine forum and links to other Web sites.
Spain- Spanish wine page Comprehensive site with information on regions, grape varieties, wineries, labels, vintage charts, dealers and distributors etc.
USA- 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.
- Wine Institute Includes useful links to health & society research, wine-specific research, US wine law and American viticultural areas.
- 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.
- 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- Wines from Austria (Austrian Wine Marketing Board) Includes regions, grape varieties, law, statistics.
- Wines of Slovenia Comprehensive site which includes information about labelling and classification, wine regions, winegrowers, grape varieties and more.
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