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Featured Online Tools

 

Plantfile the ultimate guide to plants
 
Plantfile allows you to search over 3,500 plant records, you can search by Family Name, Botanical Name, Common Name, Cultivars/SYN, Plant Overview.  Search results provide an image of the plant, plant overview and a plant profile report that you can save. Plantfile also provides information on pests, disease, weeds and a botanical dictionary.

Featured Book

Biodynamic wine growing

Environmentally Sustainable Viticulture

Viticulture - 2nd Edition

The grapevine : from the science to the practice of growing vines for wine

Wine grapes : a complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours

Vintage Tasmania : the complete book of Tasmanian wine

Journey through wine

Wine for normal people

Halliday wine companion 2021 : the bestselling and definitive guide to Australian wine

Jancis Robinson's guide to wine grapes

Grapes and wines : a comprehensive guide to varieties and flavours

The Australian and New Zealand field guide to diseases, pests and disorders of grapes

Wine grape varieties

Understanding vineyard soils

Soils for fine wines

Pruning and training

Growing quality grapes to winery specification : quality measurement and management options for grapegrowers

Using grapevine rootstocks : the Australian perspective

Websites

Industry Magazines/Journals


Tasmanian Vineyards

Biosecurity

Pests/Diseases

Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast *NEW*

The Basics of Pruning a Grapevine Series

Part 1: Introduction to pruning

Viticulture 101

Talking Tasmanian Wines

Lean Principles

Protecting your vineyard from frost

Irrigation

Drip irrigation maintenance

The Basics of Pruning a Grapevine Series

Part 2 : Spur pruning
Improving safety/security through app technology

Get to Know Tasmania wine region

Lean Principles

Tackling smoke taint head on

Irrigation

Drip irrigation monitoring

The Basics of Pruning a Grapevine Series

Part 3: Cane pruning

World of Wine: Harvesting grapes

Agriskills - Wine Education

Lean Principles

Canopy management

Irrigation

Measuring Flow Variation in Vineyard Irrigation Systems