You will find a lot of times the most knowledgable people make the worst teachers. They assume people know certain things already(how I'm not sure).
Viticulture (from the
Latin word for
vine) is the
science,
production and study of
grapes which deals with the series of events that occur in the
vineyard. When the grapes are used for
winemaking, it is also known as viniculture. It is one branch of the science of
horticulture.
While the native territory of
Vitis Vinifera is a band of area from
Western Europe to the
Persian shores of the
Caspian Sea, the vine has demonstrated high levels of
adaptability and will sometimes
mutate to accommodate a new environment after its been introduced. Because of this Viticulture can be found on every continent except
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Duties of the Viticulturalist include: monitoring and controlling
pests and
diseases,
fertilizing,
irrigation,
canopy management, monitoring
fruit development and
characteristics, deciding when to
harvest and vine
pruning during the winter months. Viticulturalists are often intimately involved with winemakers, because vineyard management and the resulting grape characteristics, provide the basis from which winemaking can begin.
Here is another word for you- you may already know it, but if not here it is:
Enology
Oenology (
BrE) or
enology (
AmE) is the science and study of all aspects of
wine and
winemaking from the grape harvest to bottle. An expert in the field of oenology is known as an
oenologist, but can also be a
winemaker.
The name is derived from the Greek term,
oenos (οίνος), which means
wine, and the suffix
-logy (from the Greek λόγος, meaning speech or study).
