Viticulture

Viticulture is the study of grapes and how they grow.

Prerequisites

Learning Materials

Viticulture Lessons

Topics include varietal selection, site selection, site preparation, equipment, first season establishment, vine growth development and training, trellis systems, vine propagation, weed control, and vine disease control.

Grapevine Biology

Varieties, rootstocks, clones, physiology and biochemistry of grapevine growth and fruit maturation; soil science, winter hardiness; grapevine propagation.

Wikipedia article:w:Vitis
Wikipedia article:w:Varietal
Wikipedia article:w:List of grape varieties
Wikipedia article:w:Rootstock
Wikipedia article:w:Cloning
Wikipedia article:w:Annual growth cycle of grapevines
Wikipedia article:w:Ripeness in viticulture

Cultural Practices

Site selection, pruning, training, canopy management, crop control, mechanization, soil management and vineyard establishment.

Wikipedia article:w:Vineyard
Wikipedia article:w:Vine training
Wikipedia article:w:Trellis (architecture)
Wikipedia article:w:Canopy (grape)
Wikipedia article:w:Mechanised agriculture
Wikipedia article:w:List of agricultural machinery
Wikipedia article:w:Soil management
Wikipedia article:w:Harvest (wine)

Climate and Winegrape Production

Climatological aspects of winegrape production emphasizing selected wine regions of the world. Effects of climate, weather-related diseases, topography, soil and viticultural practices on winegrape production.

Wikipedia article:w:Climate categories in viticulture
Wikipedia article:w:Black rot (grape)
Wikipedia article:w:Plant pathology
Wikipedia article:w:Topography

Introduction to Soil Science

Physical, chemical, biological and hydrological processes within the soil system, their interrelation and relation between these processes and the potential use of the soil.

'Soil and the environment' 'The makeup of soil' 'The vine root habitat' 'How the soil supplies nutrients' 'Nutrients for healthy vines and good wines' 'Soil/water/vine relationships and water management' 'Soil quality in vineyards' 'Site selection and soil preparation' 'Soil and wine'

Wikipedia article:w:List of vineyard soil types
Wikipedia article:w:Soil_pH
Wikipedia article:w:Terroir
Wikipedia article:w:Irrigation_in_viticulture

Grape Pest Management

Biology and dynamics of grapevine pest activity - insects, diseases, weeds, nematodes, vertebrates. Integrated pest management approach looking at all aspects of control chemical, biological, cultural. Application techniques, pest identification and monitoring.

Wikipedia article:w:List of grape diseases
Wikipedia article:w:Elsinoë ampelina
Wikipedia article:w:Powdery mildew
Wikipedia article:w:Eutypella scoparia
Wikipedia article:w:Excoriose
Wikipedia article:w:Botrytis cinerea
Wikipedia article:w:Downy mildew
Wikipedia article:w:Pierce's disease

Resources

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