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Technical Review is the AWRI’s own technical publication, which includes updates on AWRI research and a curated selection of the most recent grape and wine literature recommended by AWRI Emeritus Fellow Dr Peter Dry and Engagement Specialist Matt Holdstock.

Use the Current Literature tabs below to navigate between topics. Articles that are available online are linked directly to publishers’ websites where you can read the full-text versions. Australian winemakers and grapegrowers can request articles or books that are not freely available online from the John Fornachon Memorial Library. Log in to the library catalogue to browse abstracts, and use ‘Add to your cart’ to request a copy. Not a library member yet? Register for a new account or use the forgotten password link to reset your password.

ISSUE 276 – January 2026

CURRENT LITERATURE

AWRI PUBLICATIONS

  • Toxicological and metabolic responses of Chironomus tepperi larvae to acute and chronic PFOS exposure. [Read full-text online] Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology 
  • Crown seals – performing under pressure. [Read full-text online] Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker
  • Distinctive flavour or taint? The case of smoky characters in wine. [Read full-text online] IVES Conference Series
  • The influences of rootstock on the performance of Pinot Noir (Vitis vinifera L.): Berry and wine composition. [Read full-text online] Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research
  • Understanding polysulfide evolution in wine: insights from accelerated ageing and real-time cellaring in different packaging. [Read full-text online] Food Chemistry: X
  • Toasting the future: Pioneering flavour in no-alcohol, low-alcohol, and mid-strength wines. [Read full-text online] Treasury Wine Estates
  • 1H-NMR analysis of wine metabolites: Method development and validation. [Read full-text online] Molecules

OENOLOGY

Analysis, composition and quality control

Microbiology

Packaging, storage & transport

Sensory

Stability, hazes and deposits

Taints and faults

Winemaking practices

Analysis, composition and quality control

  • Assessing the microbiological quality of innovative sustainable low- and no-alcohol wine production [Conference poster] [Read full-text online] 1st International Online Conference on Fermentation
  • Determination of odour detection threshold for α-guaiene in water highlights potential wine aroma contribution, especially for panellists who are anosmic to rotundone [Read full-text online] OENO One
  • Detoxification capabilities of copper and pesticides by winemaking yeasts [Read full-text online] OENO One
  • Innovative non-releasing polyphenol systems as a new strategy against rosé wine oxidation [Read full-text online] Food Frontiers
  • Investigating the olfactory impact of monoterpenic compounds on fruity aroma perception in model red wine solutions [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • Machine learning-based classification of Albanian wines by grape variety, using phenolic compound dataset [Read full-text online] Analytica
  • Problématique sur vins rouges de l’interrelation des stabilités microbiologiques et phénoliques avec la clarification et la filtrabilité [Request copy from AWRI Library] Revue des Oenologues
  • Quelle est la concentration en CO2 dissous en deçà de laquelle un vin effervescent ne l’est plus ? [Request copy from AWRI Library] Revue des Oenologues
  • Thiol-Offensive [Request copy from AWRI Library] Das Deutsche Weinmagazin
  • Toward a standardized color assessment of rosé wines: application of a natural color system chart across user expertise [Read full-text online] Color Research & Application
  • Ultrafiltration-based fractionation of bioactive polyphenols from wine lees for posterior concentration: A sustainable process assessment
    [Read full-text online] Journal of Environmental Management

Microbiology

  • Analyzing the contribution of functional microorganism to volatile flavor compounds in Semillon wine and predicting their metabolic roles during natural fermentation [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Food Research International
  • Brettanomyces bruxellensis strains display variable resistance to cycloheximide: Consequences on the monitoring of wine [Read full-text online] Microorganisms
  • Characterisation of a sulphite-tolerant Schizosaccharomyces pombe strain: potential as spoilage in oversulphited must and as starter cultures in wine
    [Read full-text online] Food Bioscience
  • Evaluation of specific Torulaspora delbrueckii fractions to stimulate malolactic fermentation in limiting conditions [Read full-text online] Microorganisms
  • Evolution of Brettanomyces bruxellensis during secondary fermentation of sparkling wines and counteraction strategies [Read full-text online] Fermentation
  • From spontaneous to controlled: Simulating key aroma chemical characteristics of spontaneous fermentation with synthetic microbial community in Italian Riesling wine [Read full-text online] Food Chemistry: X
  • Influence of fermentation temperature and Metschnikowia pulcherrima/Saccharomyces cerevisiae multi-starter cultures on the volatile compounds of Lugana wine [Read full-text online] Foods
  • Influence of skin maceration and Torulaspora delbrueckii inoculation on white wine production: changes in fermentation dynamics and wine composition
    [Read full-text online] LWT
  • Interaction effect among key volatile compounds on the aroma profile of chardonnay wine co-inoculated with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Oenococcus oeni [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Food Research International
  • Mehr als nur Biologischer Säureabbau [Request copy from AWRI Library] Das Deutsche Weinmagazin
  • Metabolic characterization of two flor yeasts during second fermentation in the bottle for sparkling wine production [Read full-text online] International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Non-alcoholic beer yeasts evaluated [Read full-text online] What’s New in Food Technology & Manufacturing
  • Optimised loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for reliable detection and quantification of lactic acid bacteria in red and white wines and musts [Read full-text online] OENO One

Packaging, storage & transport

Sensory

  • Biochar had no detrimental effects on markers linked to grape and wine sensory attributes: the case study of a Portuguese Appellation [Read full-text online] VITIS – Journal of Grapevine Research
  • Discrepancy between the ability of wine experts and consumers in identifying grape smoke exposure in different wine matrices in California [Read full-text online] Journal of Food Science

Stability, hazes and deposits

  • Bentonite-clarified white wine: Linking clay physico-chemical properties to protein removal efficiency and wine matrix alterations [Read full-text online] Molecules
  • Comparison of gelatin and plant proteins in the clarification of grape musts using flotation techniques [Read full-text online] Fermentation

Taints and Faults

  • Bacteria isolated from the grape phyllosphere capable of degrading guaiacol, a main volatile phenol associated with smoke taint in wine [Read full-text online] PLOS ONE

Winemaking practices

  • American producers take on orange wine to create “New World” style [Read full-text online] Wine Business Monthly
  • Chemical and sensory attributes of different ethanol reduction methods in Muscadine wine production [Read full-text online] Beverages
  • Chemical and sensory effects of macro-oxygenation and air sparging coupled with oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) monitoring in Syrah wines [Read full-text online] Food Chemistry: X
  • Ganz oder gar nicht? [Request copy from AWRI Library] Das Deutsche Weinmagazin
  • Membrane dialysis for partial dealcoholization of wine. Comparison between white and red wines. [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
  • Ozone in gaseous and aqueous phases as a sanitizing agent for grapes used in winemaking and its impact on the implantation of Lachancea thermotolerans
    [Read full-text online] Sustainable Food Technology
  • Production of a low alcohol wine with pre-fermentation techniques [Read full-text online] Food Bioscience
  • Treasures of the deep [Request copy from AWRI Library] Halliday

SUSTAINABILITY

  • A review of the full-scale constructed wetlands for the treatment and management of winery wastewater [Read full-text online] Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health

VITICULTURE

Climate and weather

Grapevine nutrition

Grapevine varieties

Pests, disease and virus

Physiology

Soil management

Vineyard practices

Water and irrigation

Climate and weather

  • Enhancing wine grape quality in hot climate viticulture regions: The role of shading net coverage and light transmittance [Read full-text online] Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
  • Impact of climate change in viticulture: understanding and mitigating abiotic and biotic stress in grapevine [Read full-text online] Plant Stress
  • The impact of climate change on Eastern European viticulture: A review of smart irrigation and water management strategies [Read full-text online] Horticulturae
  • Vineyard management practices to mitigate the effects of climate change on ‘Monastrell’ grapes quality [Read full-text online] Discover Applied Sciences

Grapevine nutrition

  • Old school vineyard nutrient monitoring meets modern precision ag [Read full-text online] Wine Business Monthly
  • Sound nitrogen management in viticulture: from observation to must analysis [Read full-text online] iVES Technical Reviews, vine and wine 
  • Transition to more efficient nitrogen fertilization in winegrapes [Read full-text online] Wine Business Monthly

Grapevine varieties

Pests, diseases and virus

Physiology

  • Heat stress tolerance and photosynthetic responses to transient light intensities of Greek grapevine cultivars [Read full-text online] Agronomy

Soil management

  • Begrünung unter den Reuben [Request copy from AWRI Library] Das Deutsche Weinmagazin 
  • Beikräuter im Blick haben [Request copy from AWRI Library] Das Deutsche Weinmagazin 
  • Cover crops drive soil carbon retention in semi-arid sloping vineyards [Read full-text online] Ecological Processes
  • Exploring soil–plant interactions in vineyards using geophysics and hyperspectral imaging [Read full-text online] OENO One
  • Future climate will reshape inter-row grass mowing in vineyards: A modelling approach for optimized agronomic management [Read full-text online] Italian Journal of Agronomy
  • Grape ripening heterogeneity in white and red cultivars (Vitis vinifera L.) grown on different calcareous soils using technological and phenolic markers [Read full-text online] Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
  • On-farm assessment of long-term impacts of regenerative management on vineyard soil health [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] European Journal of Soil Science

Vineyard practices

  • Fruiting shoots trimming promotes lateral shoots to produce a secondary crop with enhanced grape quality: comprehensive profiling of flavor, aroma, nutritional and functional attributes [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Food Chemistry
  • Smartphone-based 3D imaging for canopy and berry cluster volume estimation in wine grapes [Read full-text online] Smart Agricultural Technology

Water and irrigation

  • Adapting viticulture to climate change: A four-year field trial on the role of water restriction in mitigating temperature increases in Malbec and Bonarda [Read full-text online] OENO One
  • Alleviating drought and heat stress: a root-canopy coordination irrigation strategy synergistically elevating grapevine yield, quality, and water productivity [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Drought stress in viticulture: an update review of the effects, mechanisms, tolerance strategies, and mitigation approaches [Read abstract online] [Request copy from AWRI Library] Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
  • Grapevine, berry and soil indicators to manage minimal irrigation strategy in semi-arid conditions: Example of Grenache Noir (Vitis vinifera L.) [Read full-text online] VITIS – Journal of Grapevine Research
  • Grapevine rootstocks and salt stress tolerance: Mechanisms, omics insights, and implications for sustainable viticulture [Read full-text online] International Journal of Plant Biology
  • Kostbares Nass [Request copy from AWRI Library] Das Deutsche Weinmagazin 
  • Optimizing deficit irrigation in wine grapes in Portugal’s Douro region: Impacts on vine physiology, yield, and must quality [Read abstract online] 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture
  • Regional dynamics in evapotranspiration components, crop coefficients, and water productivity of vineyards [Read full-text online] Agricultural Water Management
  • A simple aridity index to monitor vineyard health: Evaluating the De Martonne Index in the Iberian Peninsula [Read full-text online] Applied Sciences

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Technical Review is supported by Wine Australia, with levies from Australia’s grapegrowers and winemakers and matching funds from the Australian Government.