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Technical Review is the AWRI’s own technical publication, which includes updates on AWRI research, development and extension and a curated selection of the most recent grape and wine literature recommended by AWRI Emeritus Fellow Dr Peter Dry and Senior Oenologist Matt Holdstock.

Use the Current Literature tabs below to navigate between categories. Articles that are available online are linked directly to publishers’ websites where you can read the full-text versions. Articles that are not freely available online can be requested from the AWRI library by Australian winemakers and grapegrowers who pay the Wine Grapes or Grape Research levies. Log in to browse abstracts and use ‘Add to your cart’ to request a copy.

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Technical Review is supported by Wine Australia, with levies from Australia’s grapegrowers and winemakers and matching funds from the Australian Government.


CURRENT LITERATURE

AWRI PUBLICATIONS

  • Bianco d’Alessano [Read full-text online] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • The impact of 2,4-D herbicides on grapevines [Read full-text online] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • Modulation of the ‘flinty’ aroma compound phenylmethanethiol during fermentation: impacts of yeast starter culture and nitrogen supplementation [Read full-text online] OENO One

OENOLOGY

Analysis, composition and quality control

Microbiology

Packaging, storage and transport

Sensory

Stability, hazes and deposits

Taints and faults

Winemaking practices


Analysis, composition and quality control

Microbiology

Packaging, storage and transport

Sensory

  • Comparison of pre-fermentation and post-fermentations alcohol adjustments on aromatic chemistry and sensory composition of Sauvignon blanc wine [Read full-text online] Food Chemistry
  • Impact of fining agents on color, phenolics, aroma, and sensory properties of wine: A review [Read full-text online] Beverages

Stability, hazes and deposits

Taints and faults

  • Is airborne 2,4,6-Trichloroanisole (TCA) a threat for bottled wine? [Read full-text online] Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research

Winemaking practices

SUSTAINABILITY

  • Assessment of environmental management performance in wineries: A survey-based analysis to create key performance indicators [Read full-text online] Environments
  • Cold cuts: Slashing winery refrigeration energy costs by 20-50% [Request copy from AWRI Library] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • Environmental sustainability in the wine industry, a literature review [Read full-text online] Cleaner Production Letters
  • Pesticides use and its effects on grape production: A review [Read full-text online] Sustainable Environment
  • To what extent can a phase-out of pesticides in viticulture be achieved? Learning from the efforts of a large farm network after 10 years [Read full-text online] OENO One

VITICULTURE

Agrochemical

Climate and weather

General

Grapevine nutrition

Grapevine varieties

Pests, disease and virus

Physiology

Soil management

Vineyard practices

Water and irrgation


Agrochemical

  • Analysis of cleaning water used in the wine industry: Part I – Pesticide selection [Read full-text online] Microchemical Journal

Climate and weather

  • Andrew Jefford: ‘Global warming appears to have lurched Bordeaux forward into a changed state’ [Read full-text online] Decanter
  • Combining vineyard performance metrics with soil climate data to better understand regional terroir: An example from Marlborough, New Zealand [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Historic changes and future projections in Köppen–Geiger climate classifications in major wine regions worldwide [Read full-text online] Climate
  • Life cycle assessment of active spring frost protection methods in viticulture: A framework to compare different technologies [Read full-text online] Cleaner Environmental Systems
  • Managing vineyards in heatwaves – Part 1 [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Managing vineyards in heatwaves – Part 2 [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Orographic effects on berry morphology and chemical composition of Carignan and Grenache Noir grapes [Read full-text online] South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture
  • Turning up the heat: climate change consequences for Pinot Noir berry quality [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Wie ist der Wasserstatus? [Request copy from AWRI Library] Das Deutsche Weinmagazin

General

Grapevine nutrition

Grapevine varieties

  • Bourboulenc – a handy blend component for a warming climate [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Cabernet’s evolving place in Australia’s wine regions [Request copy from AWRI Library] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • Les cépages, entre permanence et renouvellement [Request copy from AWRI Library] Revue des Oenologues
  • Counoise – better late than never [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • РАЗВИТИЕ СЕЛЕКЦИИ СОРТОВ ВИНОГРАДА КАК ЭФФЕКТИВНОГО СПОСОБА СОЧЕТАНИЯ УСТОЙЧИВОСТИ И КАЧЕСТВА. НАУЧНЫЙ ОБЗОР [Read full-text online] Современное садоводство – Contemporary Horticulture
  • Gamay uncorked: The jury is still out on Australian Gamay [Request copy from AWRI Library] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • GrapeBreed4IPM: Un projet financé par Horizon Europe pour adapter la viticulture européenne à un monde en mutation [Request copy from AWRI Library] Revue des Oenologues
  • Improving the health of New Zealand’s National Vine Collection [Read full-text online] New Zealand Winegrower
  • Innovation variétale en viticulture: Les enjeux et perspectives pour la filière [Request copy from AWRI Library] Revue des Oenologues
  • Oneca, una variedad blanca, recientemente inscrita, recuperada del olvido [Request copy from AWRI Library] La Semana Vitivinícola
  • Protection of viticultural biodiversity: genetic and phenotypic characterisation of grapevine varieties from the northwest coastal area of Tuscany (Italy) [Read full-text online] OENO One
  • Un réseau de 40 partenaires engagés pour préserver la diversité de l’encépagement du vignoble français [Request copy from AWRI Library] Revue des Oenologues
  • Tempranillo y Airén copan el 42% de la superficie plantada de vid en España [Request copy from AWRI Library] La Semana Vitivinícola
  • Viva Verdelho: Consumers love it – and it pays the bills [Request copy from AWRI Library] WBM: Australia’s Wine Business Magazine
  • A walk on the lighter side with Gamay [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Which are Australia’s emerging winegrape varieties? [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal

Pests, diseases and virus

  • Best practices for monitoring visual symptoms of grapevine red blotch disease in black-fruited winegrape cultivars [Read full-text online] American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
  • Biological control for grapevine crown gall through soil injection with Allorhizobium vitis strain ARK-1 [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] European Journal of Plant Pathology
  • Biological control of Botryosphaeria dieback of grapevines in British Columbia, Canada [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
  • Botrytis risk: new access to weather rules [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Crown gall: know the facts and assess the risk [Request copy from AWRI Library] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • Detection and quantification of grapevine bunch rot using functional data analysis and canonical variate analysis biplots of infrared spectral data [Read full-text online] South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture
  • Evaluation of a laser-guided intelligent sprayer for disease and insect management on grapes [Read full-text online] American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
  • Grapevine Pinot gris virus spreads in infected vineyards: latent infections have no direct impact on grape production [Read full-text online] Virology Journal
  • Grapevine trunk disease pathogen spore detection varies within and around vineyards [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Hail-damaged grapevines at risk of grapevine trunk disease infection [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Identifying downy and powdery mildew resistance in the clones produced in the Sauvignon Blanc 2.0 Programme using high-throughput phenotyping [Read full-text online] New Zealand Winegrower
  • Performance of genetically diverse phylloxera genotypes on 5C Teleki rootstock [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal

Physiology

Soil management

  • Challenges in viticulture practices in a changing environment: Can green waste amendment benefit soil properties of vineyards in the Mediterranean? [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Geoderma Regional
  • Cover crops and no-tillage show negligible effects on grapevine physiology in warm and hot climates [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Demonstrating spray-on mulch in vineyards [Request copy from AWRI Library] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • Effects of vineyard inter-row management on soil physical properties and organic carbon in Central European vineyards [Read full-text online] Soil Use and Management
  • Effects of winery wastewater to soils on mineral properties and soil carbon [Read full-text online] Land
  • Soil health management practices in New Zealand vineyards [Read full-text online] New Zealand Winegrower

Vineyard practices

  • Assessing Santorini Island’s Kouloura training system in the context of climate change [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Dual trellis system shelters white varieties with reds [Request copy from AWRI Library] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • Is the choice of grapevine training system affected by climate change? [Request copy from AWRI Library] Wine & Viticulture Journal
  • Long spur pruning as an alternative to cane pruning for Sauvignon blanc in Marlborough [Read full-text online] New Zealand Winegrower
  • Training technique may have an effect on permanent cordon longevity [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
  • Vale Scott Henry, the rocket scientist who developed a grapevine training system [Read full-text online] Wine Business Monthly
  • Vale Scott Henry, the rocket scientist who developed a grapevine training system: Remembering the late training creator and making the case for wider use of the Scott Henry system [Request copy from AWRI Library] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • Vine spacing of Vitis vinifera cv. Shiraz/101-14 Mgt II. Establishment, and vegetative and reproductive growth [Read full-text online] OENO One
  • Vine spacing of Vitis vinifera cv. Shiraz/101-14 Mgt. III. Grape and wine quality [Read full-text online] OENO One

Water and irrigation

  • Aplicación de riego deficitario en distintas fases del ciclo vegetativo en cv. Verdejo en la D.O.P. Rueda [Request copy from AWRI Library] La Semana Vitivinícola
  • Assessing grapevine water status in a variably irrigated vineyard with NIR/SWIR hyperspectral imaging from UAV [Read full-text online] Precision Agriculture
  • Canopy architecture and sun exposure influence berry cluster–water relations in the grapevine variety Muscat of Alexandria [Read full-text online] Plants
  • Effect of irrigation with treated municipal wastewater on Vitis vinifera L. cvs. Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon blanc in commercial vineyards in the Coastal region of South Africa – Vegetative growth, yield and juice characteristics [Read full-text online] South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture
  • Herramienta de predicción de necesidades de riego en viñedos de clima atlántico: GO REGAVID [Request copy from AWRI Library] La Semana Vitivinícola
  • Maîtrise de la qualité des eaux usées traitées pour l’irrigation de la vigne [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Revue des Oenologues
  • Screening of drought-tolerant grape cultivars using multivariate discrimination based on physiological, biochemical and anatomical traits [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Applied Fruit Science