viticulture
/ˈvɪtɪˌkʌltʃə
/noun [mass noun]
1The cultivation of grapevines.Those on the flatter inner edge are frequently planted in land more suited to agriculture than to viticulture....
- The concepts of winemaking, viticulture, varietals and everything surrounding wine production in the Chianti Classico zone have been reborn.
- Agriculture includes livestock-rearing, viticulture, and crops such as cereals, sugar beet, and potatoes.
1.1The study of grape cultivation.Only when he was 36 did he decide to study viticulture and oenology in more detail, in Paris....
- Early on, Shari went back to school to study viticulture and enology at the University of California, Davis.
- Maybe you just have to get a book on viticulture to keep your grapes from going bad.
Derivatives
viticultural
- Winemaking technology and viticultural science have advanced to such a degree that talented winemakers can sometimes turn out fairly delicious wines even when nature is working against them.
- When their viticultural efforts didn't meet with much success in the semi-arid Mexican terrain where agave thrives, the Europeans decided to compromise.
- Most of the region's winemakers arrived here when it was still a viticultural frontier.
viticulturist
- It is grown in every wine region, bending as much to the wills of the viticulturists and wine-makers as to the influence of climate and terroir.
- A fickle grape, it can disappoint the best viticulturists and wine makers, but - teeth gritted - they try again and again, blaming the wrong vineyard site, the wrong clone, wrong trellising, and so on.
- To do this he went to France and recruited the best viticulturists, winemakers and architects for his new project.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Latin vitis 'vine' + culture, on the pattern of words such as agriculture.