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Academia
Regular, Ongoing, Formal Educational Institutions with wine curriculum and online reference information. Please see also the Educators & Courses links for wine appreciation classes that are offered either online, occasionally, or informally.

Brock University (Ontario, Canada)
Oenology & Viticulture

California State University, Fresno and UC Davis are the only two Universities in the United States that offer a full program of study in both Enology and Viticulture. CSUF or "Fresno State" centers its curriculum on practice and is the only American university that produces wine for commercial sale.
California State University Fresno
Viticulture & Enology Research Center

Charles Sturt University (Australia)
Charles Sturt University
Ron Potter Wine Centre

Cornell University (New York)
Enology Research & Extension

Lincoln University (New Zealand)
Lincoln University Viticulture & Oenology

Sonoma State University
Wine Business Program

Texas A & M
Agriculture Research and Extension Center - Wine Grapes

Université Bordeaux
Victor Segalen School of Life, Human and Health Sciences
Oenologie

University of Adelaide in South Australia formed the School of Agriculture, Food & Wine in 2003, which includes the Cooperative Research Centre for Viticulture, and disciplines in Wine and Horticulture Research and probably the most extensive studies in the world related to the Wine Business.

University of California at Davis is one of only two Universities in the United States that offer full programs of study in both Enology and Viticulture. UCD or "Davis" is the center for most California wine research and its curriculum emphasizes theory.
Ann C. Noble's Sensory Science
Dept. of Viticulture & Enology
Grape Pest Control
Pierce's Disease
Wine Aroma Wheel - inexpensive, but invaluable tool we highly recommend for learning to both recognize the array of possible smells and flavors in wine and to apply the universal words to describe these sensations.

Université du Monpellier
Université du Monpellier

Research
Businesses, Groups and Institutions primarily engaged in investigating wine-related phenomena, rather than instructing it.

American Vineyard Foundation (funds viticulture research projects at UC Davis and Fresno State)

Australian Wine Research Institute

Cyrano Science Labs (FYI - we like companies with a serious sense of humour - move aside, Dave!)

Geisenheim Research Station

German Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants (BAZ)
Bundesanstalt für Züchtungsforschung
Vitis International Variety Catalogue of 17,000 registered grape varieties, with data on berry color, synonyms, parentage, origin, species, occurrence and use; includes photos of apices, leaves and clusters
GENRES Database is the Results of a 5-year-Vitis project (1997-2002) aimed to preserve, describe and evaluate genetic resources.
Vitis VEA Database lists journal articles, books and conference proceedings in the field of viticulture, grapevine biology, grapevine breeding and enology with bibliographic data, abstracts and controlled terms or descriptors. Begun in 1969, it contains approximately 44,200 items, updated quarterly A with nearly 1,500 literature citations are added annually.

Monell Chemical Senses Center

Vinquiry

Winefiles.org is an online database of in-print wine references. Maintained by the Sonoma County Wine Library, it does not have entire articles, but lists authors, publications, and dates and is searchable by subject matter, as well.


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