viniculture
/ˈvɪnɪˌkʌltʃə
/noun [mass noun]
The cultivation of grapevines for winemaking.The program explores the subtleties of terroir, craftsmanship, viticulture, viniculture, cooperage and food and wine pairings over a three day session....
- The new world has helped turn wine growing and wine making into a science (viticulture and viniculture respectively).
- He is attempting to establish the origin of the earliest Neolithic viniculture - where grapevines were cultivated and winemaking developed.
Derivatives
vinicultural
- He has already pushed our knowledge of vinicultural history back to Neolithic times (the late Stone Age).
- As the name is intended to suggest, it is marketed as a sort of vinicultural endowment policy for homebuyers with interest-only mortgages.
- Fifteen vinicultural relevant pesticides were added to sea sand.
viniculturist
- Each of this micro-climates provide viniculturists with endless opportunities to create wonderful wines.
- The enumerators were viniculturist and fruit-grower experts as well as agricultural experts.
- Compact, folding pruning saws have been used by gardeners, viniculturists, and foresters for generations.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Latin vinum 'wine' + culture, on the pattern of words such as agriculture.