Viticulture & Oenology

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
• Federation Internationale des Vins et Spiritueux / International Federation of Wines and Spirits
• Institute of Masters of Wine (IMW)
• Internet guide to wine
• INTO WINE Main Page General guide to winemaking, regions, wine and health etc.
• 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 and grape information (UC Davis Dept. of Viticulture & Enology)
• 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.
• Winebiz: news and information for the Australian wine industry A portal site for the Australian wine industry provided by Winetitles. Inclludes news, vintage reports, winery search and industry overview.
• WineDefinitions.com  Includes wine definitions, pronunciations and learning guides for viticultural education.
• Winegrape Glossary By Anthony J. Hawkins. Fulltext.
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Yeast

Databases and wine search engines

• Agricola 1985- Database of the US National Library of Agriculture and cooperative organisations

• Agriculture & Natural Resources Australian agriculture databases

• Annual report collection A selection of annual reports of the top 500 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

• Biosis Previews 1980- Also called Biological Abstracts. International biological database, includes viticulture, wine making, brewing, fermentation etc.

• CAB Abstracts 1910- International agricultural database which covers grape and wine research.

• Current Contents Connect Latest 4 years. Access to tables of contents and bibliographic data of current issues of more than 8,000 scholarly journals.

• 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) 1967- Available for University staff and students only in the Waite Library (PC no.4) and Barr Smith Library (PCs no. 335 & 336). For installation instructions onto University PCs, see this guide.

• Scopus 1966- Indexes a wide range of journal articles in all fields.

• 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.

• Web of Science 1980- Indexes a wide range of journal articles in all fields.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• Cornell Fruit Resources: Grapes Focuses more on growing grapes in cooler climates, particularly in the State of New York.
• 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.
• Vitis International Variety Catalogue Descriptor data and pictures of more than 17,000 cultivars and Vitis species found in grapevine variety collections and in literature
• Vitisearch created by Michel White. Includes pictures of grape varieties
• Winegrape Glossary by Anthony J. Hawkins. Fulltext.
• Yalumba Nursery  Commercial viticultural nursery site. Includes rootstock selector aid.

Diseases and pests

• Grape Phylloxera  (Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet)
• HortFact - Grapevine diseases in New Zealand. Fulltext information with links to further information.
• Pests of grape (Univ. of California Pest Management Guidelines). Fulltext. Covers diseases, insects & mites, nematodes and weeds.
• Phylloxera & Grape Industry Board of South Australia  Information on the law and Phylloxera, preventing Phylloxera, vineyard registration and industry statistics.
• UC Pest Management Guidelines: Grape Phylloxera  (University of California, Davis)
• UCR Glassy-winged Sharpshooter resources (University of California, Riverside)
• Viticulture - Pests (Michigan State University) The viticulture information centre within the AgNIC alliance.

Health aspects of alcohol

• Alcohol in Moderation: international digest. Some fulltext articles.
• 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.

Tasting

Wine marketing resource guide

AUSTRALIA

General and trade sites

• Australian & New Zealand Wine Industry Buyers' Guide  Fully searchable guide to wine industry equipment, products and services
• Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics (ABARE)
• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Australian Stock Exchange
• Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation
• Australian Wines of Distinction
• Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
• National Wine and Grape Industry Centre Charles Sturt University
• 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..
• Winebiz: news and information for the Australian wine industry Australian wine industry's portal, produced by Winetitles and Ryan Publications.
• 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

• Areas of vines and grape production by variety 2005-2006 (Winefacts Data Warehouse, Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation)
• Australian beverage wine production 1969/70 to 2005/06 by State (Winefacts Data Warehouse, Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation)
• Australian gross wine production 1969/70 to 2005/06 by State (Winefacts Data Warehouse, Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation)
• Australian Regional Winegrape Crush Survey (AWBC)
• Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation  Provides industry statistics, regulations, geographical indications etc
• Australian wine and grape industry (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
• 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 industry overview  Viticulture, vintage, domestic wine sales, exports,  production, wineries, world comparisons. Provided by Winetitles.
• 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
• 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)
• The state of vitiviniculture in the world and the statistical information/Office international de la vigne et du vin Also held in Library at  - Waite Journals 663.205 B936a
• 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
• Vintage reports (Winefacts Data Warehouse, Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation)
• Wine Institute (California, USA)  Includes industry background and US statistics.
• Wine Institute of New Zealand  Provides statistical information on the NZ wine industry
• 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 production 1998/98 to 2005/06 by State (Winefacts Data Warehouse, Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation)
• World wine production by country 1994 to 2005 (Winefacts Data Warehouse, Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation)

Research and education

• Australian Wine Research Institute
• National Wine & Grape Industry Centre Charles Sturt University, Australia
• Cooperative Research Center for Viticulture
• CSIRO Plant Industry Home Page
• Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation
• Interwinery Analysis Group
• National Wine Centre of Australia University of Adelaide
• Provisor - for grape and wine research
• University of Adelaide. Centre for International Economic Studies. Wine Economics Program. Includes downloadable fulltext wine policy briefs and papers.
• University of Adelaide. Faculty of Sciences. School of Agriculture and Wine. Discipline of Wine & Horticulture

Wine industry organisations

• Association of Australian Boutique Winemakers Inc.
• Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology
• Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Includes export compliance information, regulations, wine regions (geographical indicators) and industry statistics.
• Market Development Advisory Committee (formerly Australian Wine Export Council
• Coonawarra Vignerons Association
• Food Standards Australia New Zealand
• Limestone Coast Wine Industry Council  Includes a searchable list of research reports relevant to the region.
• Murray Valley Winegrowers' Regional Industry Web Site
• National Wine & Grape Industry Centre Charles Sturt University, Australia
• NSW Wine Industry Association
• South Australian Wine Industry Association
• Wine Industry Association of W.A.
• 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)

• Annual report collection Fulltext of the annual reports of the top 500 Australian publicly-listed companies.
• Australian Winery Search (wine@biz) Sourced from the latest edition of the Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry Directory.
• Australian Wines of Distinction
• Coldstream Hills (Yarra Valley)
• Fosters Group links to wineries under the Fosters Group
• Hardy Wine Company
• Henschke Wines
• Hunter Valley Wine Country (NSW)
• Limestone Coast Wine Industry Council (SA)  Includes a searchable list of research reports relevant to the region.
• Lindemans
• McLaren Vale wineries (SA)
• Padthaway Wine Region (SA)
• Penfolds
• Pyrenees Wine Region (Vic.)
• Seppelt
• Stonehaven Vineyards (SA) Includes the Shiraz Challenge and Chardonnay Capers winemaking games.
• Wilson Vineyard (SA) Includes a Clare Valley Riesling Trail.
• Wolf Blass (SA) Comprehensive Web site, includes tasting notes, technical notes on wine styles and processes, information on vineyards, history and more.
• Wynns Coonawarra
• Yalumba

Canada

• Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (Brock University, Canada)

University of Guelph, Canada. Laboratory for Wine Microbiology.
• Wines of Canada

France

• Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne. Official site for the wines of Burgundy. In French.
• Champagne Wines Information Bureau. In English. Information on champagne regions, winemaking, vintage reports and so on.
• Federation Internationale des Vins et Spiritueux / International Federation of Wines and Spirits In English
• French Wines Web  English version. Lists winegrowers and makers for each region and links to their sites.
• Institut Jules Guyot, l'Universite de Bourgogne, France
• Faculte d'Oenologie, l'Universite de Bordeaux 2, France
• Institut National des Appellations d'Origine.
• Les Vins des Cotes du Rhone Wines of the Rhone valley. French or English version.
• Vignerons Independants de France Representing independent winemakers. In French.
• Office International de la Vigne et du Vin In English.
• Vinexpo (Bordeaux) World exhibition of wines and spirits. In English.
• Vins de Bordeaux. Wines of Bordeaux. In English.
• 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

• Forschungsanstalt Geisenheim, Germany
• Gault Millau Wein Guide Deutschland 2000 Information on wine regions, winemakers. In German.
• 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

• Lincoln University. Centre for Viticulture & Oenology Lists research papers, courses, staff, links to other sites.
• New Zealand Wine  Official Web site of the NZ wine and grape industry.
• New Zealand Wine Institute report
• Wine On Line New Zealand Information on wine regions, wineries and on ordering wine.

South Africa

• FAQ on South African Wines
• South African Wine Pages Includes the SA Wine Directory, searchable by winery or winemaker.
• 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

• American Society for Enology & Viticulture (ASEV)
• Wine America : the national association of American wineries
• American Wine Society
• California State University. Viticulture & Enology Research Center
• Napa Valley wine and wineries
• 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.
• Society of Wine Educators
• UC Davis Dept. of Viticulture & Enology
• UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management: Grapes
• Wine Country  Extensive California wine country guide.
• Wine industry information resources (University Library, Sonoma State University)
• 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.
• Viticulture and enology of Hungary
• London International Wine & Spirits Fair
• Swiss wine page  In English. Information on regions, growers, trade links.
• Vinhos Portugueses  In Portuguese.
• Wines of Slovenia Comprehensive site which includes information about labelling and classification, wine regions, winegrowers, grape varieties and more.