The Auswine Forum

Hi there

I've bee scouring the net for the past few days for australian sites that have viticulture forums - to no avail.

I've got a small vineyard of 300 vines and would like to find somewhere that has people in a similar situation.

Anyone know?

Thanks

-Markus

Markus,
there are no australian ones that I am aware of, and I have looked, but there is one in the states, winepress . net I think it was

Cheers

Hi Markus
Ive looked around in the past and failed as well.
What sort of stuff were you after?

Are there many keen and interested viticulturists who'd like a forum?

Markus,

Just in case you have not done it, I typed viticulture forums into a Google search - the first page included the following.

There is one that is part of AgLinks, but its Horticulture and Viticulture; does not look very useful. Click here

There is CRUSHNET in the USA. Click here

There is one called viticulture UK. Click here.

Enology Notes is a free electronic news journal that covers practical grape and wine technology issues. Subscription is free. Its part of Virginia Tech in the USA. Click here. Prof. Bruce Zoecklein is a very helpful guy, he will probably answer a few questions for you if they are of a general (i.e. not Australia specific) nature.


For the Google search click here.

Good luck,
Mike

so far I think theres 3 of us

Well

Its a click of a few buttons for those wonderful auswine people

modesty forbids

to create a new forum here, for viticulture (ists)?

Do you think there is enough interested people to be involved?

Dont think I could contribute, but would love to read such a forum.

platinum wrote:Dont think I could contribute, but would love to read such a forum.

ditto

Gavin,

Sounds like it could be a good plan and if you decide to do it, I will be happy to publicise it in my Irregular Update as well as home page.

Department of Agriculture WA used to have a pile of info sheets but no forum.

I'd be interested. It'd be good to pester different people with viticulture questions, especially as I'm in the midst of new plantings. In the past I've done vineyard visits, lots of emails and calls to different growers, improvement societies, consultants and winemakers, plus bits of courses, which all work OK, but aren't quite the same as what you can do in an online forum.

albus wrote:

platinum wrote:Dont think I could contribute, but would love to read such a forum.

ditto

ditto x 2

I might be able to help anyone out with viticultural enquiries, just let me know, or make a post. (Perhaps it could be a permanent sticky admin?)

The Australian Viticulture Forum has just been created.

It is open and available for those interested to discuss relevant issues, and to help each other out.

You do need to be a registered auswine forum user to contribute and post, although, of course, it can be read by anyone.

I hope it becomes a useful resource, all those in the industry and interested are welcome to become involved, and i hope you do.

regards

Gavin Trott

Gavin Trott wrote:The Australian Viticulture Forum has just been created.

It is open and available for those interested to discuss relevant issues, and to help each other out.

You do need to be a registered auswine forum user to contribute and post, although, of course, it can be read by anyone.

I hope it becomes a useful resource, all those in the industry and interested are welcome to become involved, and i hope you do.

regards

Gavin Trott

Well done!

Great plan!

I will read it too. (But please ignore any advice I may offer on there, as I know nothing of viticulture )

Wow-that's great! Thanks for all the other leads, people, I'll be sure to check them out. I'll see you all over at the viticulture forum!

Gavin Trott wrote:The Australian Viticulture Forum has just been created.

It is open and available for those interested to discuss relevant issues, and to help each other out.

You do need to be a registered auswine forum user to contribute and post, although, of course, it can be read by anyone.

I hope it becomes a useful resource, all those in the industry and interested are welcome to become involved, and i hope you do.

regards

Gavin Trott