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• Alicante Bouschet. Wine & Viticulture Journal.
• Ask the AWRI: Effects of COVID-19 on sense of smell. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Ask the AWRI: Importing new grape varieties. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Ask the AWRI: Techniques to detect Brettanomyces before it’s too late. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Construction of a synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae pan-genome neo-chomosome. Nature Communications.
• Float or sink? Comparing the impacts of flotation and cold settling on the non-volatile composition, taste and mouthfeel of white wines. Wine & Viticulture Journal.
• Growing shoots of sustainability. Wine & Viticulture Journal.
• Influence of amino acids, and their interaction with volatiles and polyphenols, on the sensory properties of red wine. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• Introducing Affinity Labs – a new identity for the AWRI’s commercial activities. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• KU80 deletion does not improve homologous recombination in Brettanomyces bruxellensis. Authorea.
• Molecular approaches improving our understanding of Brettanomyces physiology. FEMS Yeast Research.
• Surface chemistry mediated albumin adsorption, conformational changes and influence on innate immune responses. Applied Surface Science.

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• ASEV 2021 Keynote Lecture: New insights into bound SO₂ and wine oxidation. Wine Business Monthly.
• Benchmarking spectroscopic techniques combined with machine learning to study oak barrels for wine ageing. Biosensors.
• Browning development and antioxidant compounds in white wines after selenium, iron, and peroxide addition. Applied Sciences.
• Calcium tartrate instability. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Cross-flow impacts on wine filterability and performance monitoring. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Effect of microoxygenation applied before and after malolactic fermentation on monomeric phenolics and tannin composition of Pinot Noir wine. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• Effect of microoxygenation on acetaldehyde, yeast and colour before and after malolactic fermentation on Pinot Noir wine. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• Hope for alternative to sulfur dioxide fades. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• New insights into the origin of volatile sulfur compounds during wine fermentation and their evolution during aging. Fermentation.
• Partial carbonic maceration in Merlot. Wine Business Monthly.
• Pepper aromas and rotundone: Part 2 of 2 – Impact of environmental factors, viticultural practices and winemaking techniques. [French] Revue des Oenologues.
• Sulfonation reactions behind the fate of white wine’s shelf-life. Metabolites.
• Sulfur dioxide: understanding its past, present and a view into the future. Wine Business Monthly.
• Transfer of pesticide residues from grapes (Vitis vinifera) into wine – Correlation with selected physicochemical properties of the active substances. Toxics.
• Understanding smoke exposure results: Pinot noir baseline concentrations of smoke impact markers across five vintages. Catalyst: Discovery into Practice.
• Use of Fe (II) and H₂O_2M along with heating for the estimation of the browning susceptibility of white wine. Applied Sciences.

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• Bio-acidification of wine using Lachancea thermotolerans yeast. [French] Revue des Oenologues.
• Ecological distribution and oenological characterization of native Saccharomyces cerevisiae in an organic winery. Fermentation.
• Innovative use of Non-Saccharomyces in bio-protection: T. delbrueckii and M. pulcherrima applied to a machine harvester. Catalyst: Discovery into Practice.
• Isolation and characterization of high-ethanol-tolerance lactic acid bacteria from Australian wine. Foods.

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• A heavy price. Decanter.
• Canned wine powers up. Harpers Wine & Spirit.
• Influence of vibration on the consumption of oxygen and sulfur dioxide in wine bottles considering bottle position and headspace volume. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture.
• Reusable wine bottles slowly gaining ground. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.

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• A closeup look at the ‘dealcoholised wine’ trend. [French] Revue Francaise d’Oenologie.

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• Analysis of retronasal flavor alterations in smoke-affected wines and the efficacy of various inter-stimulus rinse protocols in clearing smoke-related attributes. Beverages.

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• Potential levels of volatile phenols in Burgundy wines. Part 1: The effects of wine-growing and wine-making parameters.[French] Revue Francaise d’Oenologie.
• Analysis of free hydrogen sulfide in wines using gas detection tubes. Catalyst: Discovery into Practice.
• Natural product phenolic diglycosides created from wildfires, defining their impact on California and Oregon grapes and wines. Journal of Natural Products.
• Potential levels of volatile phenols in Burgundy wines. Part 1: The effects of wine-growing and wine-making parameters. Revue Francaise d’Oenologie.

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• Accuro: Fast-tracking the aging progress. New Zealand Winegrower.
• How to make a mineral wine? Relationship between production type in the Chablis vineyard and the search for a mineral wine style. OENO One.
• Membrane dialysis for partial dealcoholization of white wines. Membranes.
• Monitoring of Sangiovese red wine chemical and sensory parameters along one-year aging in different tank materials and glass bottle. ACS Food Science & Technology.
• Research supplement: Pre-fermentation tannin additions to Pinot noir. New Zealand Winegrower.
• The future of potassium bitartrate stabilization: minimizing energy, wine loss, and treatment time. Catalyst: Discovery into Practice.
• Use of microwave maceration in red winemaking: Effect on fermentation and chemical composition of red wines. Molecules.

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• Decarbonising wine: Wine leaders as climate leaders. New Zealand Winegrower.
• Energy consumption and CO₂ emissions related to wine production: The case study of a winery in Douro wine region-Portugal. Sustainability.
• Point of view: Sustainability trends challenges and opportunities in 2022 and beyond. New Zealand Winegrower.
• Residual biomass recovery in the wine sector: Creation of value chains for vine pruning. Agriculture.

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• Sequential membrane filtration to recover polyphenols and organic acids from red wine lees: The antioxidant properties of the spray-dried concentrate. Membranes.

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• Wine’s carbon footprint: Counting the costs and lessening the impact. The World of Fine Wine.

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• A bibliometric review of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in precision agriculture and precision viticulture for sensing applications. Remote Sensing.
• Cropsy: Bringing the power of AI to vineyard monitoring. New Zealand Winegrower.
• Experimentation during wine grape production in Australia: motivations, approaches and opportunities for change. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• Old vines begin to capture the wine world’s attention. Wine Business Monthly.
• Sensing and automation for vineyards: What it is and how to plan for it. Wine Business Monthly.
• ‘The wine world has some dangerously alluring myths’. Decanter.
• Unripe grapes: an overview of the composition, traditional and innovative applications, and extraction methods of a promising waste of viticulture. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• What role might precision viticulture play in the transition to environmental agriculture? [French] Revue des Oenologues.

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• High temperature alters anthocyanin concentration and composition in grape berries of Malbec, Merlot, and Pinot Noir in a cultivar-dependent manner. Plants.
• Industry roundtable: Dealing with drought. Wine Business Monthly.
• Projections of climate change impacts on flowering-veraison water deficits for Riesling and Müller-Thurgau in Germany. Remote Sensing.

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• Application of foliar urea to grapevines: productivity and flavour components of grapes. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• Manipulating nitrogen and water resources for improved cool climate vine to wine quality. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture.
• Mineral nutrient management methods. Wine Business Monthly.

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• California soil: Italian soul. Decanter.
• Emerging varieties: Pinot Blanc is all white. WBM: Australia’s Wine Business Magazine.
• Furmint: the journey continues. Decanter.
• Gamay uncorked: the black sheep of France. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Helping vines protect themselves growing on rootstock. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Kékfrankos: the blue of the Danube. Decanter.
• Montepulciano Uncorked – Upping the Monte. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• New Spanish whites. Decanter.
• Pinot vineyard with devil in the detail. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Resistant varieties: the next step toward sustainability. Will consumers agree? Wine Business Monthly.
• The irresistible rise of Australian Grenache. The World of Fine Wine.
• Varietal investigation: adaptation to climate change in the Provencal wine region. [French] Revue des Oenologues.

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• Application of elicitors in grapevine defense: Impact on volatile compounds. Horticulturae.
• Application of infrared imaging for early detection of Downy Mildew (Plasmopara viticola) in grapevine. Agriculture.
• Biosecurity update: The Biosecurity Vineyard Register. New Zealand Winegrower.
• Coming clean on farm-gate hygiene. WBM: Australia’s Wine Business Magazine.
• Critical timing of fungicide application for pruning wound protection control grapevine trunk diseases. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• Crop-spraying with drones. [French] Le Vigneron Champenois.
• Grapevine trunk diseases. Part 1 of 2: Life cycle of the botryosphaeria fungi in the vineyard. [French] Revue des Oenologues.
• Mixtures of macro and micronutrients control grape powdery mildew and alter berry metabolites. Plants.
• Monitoring powdery mildew presence: Power of spore traps and CVC Spore Trap Network TM. Wine Business Monthly.
• Results from following the sensitivity of populations of P. viticola, the agent of mildew, and E. necator, the agent of powdery mildew, to fungicides in 2021. [French] Le Vigneron Champenois.

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• Abscisic acid and proline are not equivalent markers for heat, drought and combined stress in grapevines. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• Autonomous phenological development in different Merlot grapevine shoots. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture.
• Differential influence of timing and duration of bunch bagging on volatile organic compounds in Cabernet Sauvignon berries (Vitis vinifera L.). Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• Effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on the vineyard system of Vitis vinifera: A review. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture.
• Forever young? Late shoot pruning affects phenological development, physiology, yield and wine quality of Vitis vinifera cv. Malbec. Agriculture.
• Grapevine row orientation, vintage and grape ripeness effect on anthocyanins, flavan-3-ols, flavonols and phenolic acids: I. Vitis vinifera L. cv. Syrah grapes. OENO One.
• Historic vintage in DOCa Rioja: ‘Missing’ polyphenols during grape maturation in Tempranillo. [Spanish] La Semana Vitivinicola.
• Methods for continual production of grapevine plants grown from green cuttings, with repeated budburst induction, in an environmentally controlled greenhouse. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research.
• Rootstock, vine vigor, and light mediate methoxypyrazine concentrations in the grape bunch rachis of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Cabernet Sauvignon. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

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• Grapevine rootstock and soil microbiome interactions: Keys for a resilient viticulture. Horticulture Research.
• Managing cover crops: optimising results. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Vineyard nexus: New weed paradigm. New Zealand Winegrower.

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• A few words on grapevine winter buds and pruning in consideration of sap flow. IVES Technical Reviews. Vine and Wine.
• Deep learning and computer vision for assessing the number of actual berries in commercial vineyards. Biosystems Engineering.
• Effects of artificial shading and defoliation measures on grape health, grape quality and wine quality with the grape variety ‘Chardonnay’ (Vitis vinifera L.) in the winegrowing region Southern Styria. [German] Mitteilungen Klosterneuburg Rebe und Wein.
• Facing spring frost damage in grapevine: Recent developments and the role of delayed winter pruning – A review. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture.
• Influence of different defoliation timings on quality and phenolic composition of the wines produced from the Serbian autochthonous variety Prokupac (Vitis vinifera L.). Horticulturae.
• Investigations into the effect of stem height on grape yield and quality of the variety ‘Zweigelt’ over eleven years. [German] Mitteilungen Klosterneuburg Rebe und Wein.
• Mechanical pruning and soil organic amending in two terroirs. Effects on wine chemical composition and sensory profile. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture.
• Mechanization of pruning, canopy management, and harvest in winegrape vineyards. Catalyst: Discovery into Practice.
• Performance of early fruit-zone leaf removal in Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot in an arid climate. Catalyst: Discovery into Practice.
• Pinot noir crop estimation method allows growers to estimate yields earlier than lag phase. Catalyst: Discovery into Practice.
• Research supplement: Timing of mechanical shaking to reduce botrytis bunch rot in Sauvignon blanc. New Zealand Winegrower.
• Semi-wide vines in Champagne: Part 2 of 3 – Environmental, economic and ergonomic aspects. [French] Le Vigneron Champenois.
• Semi-wide vines in Champagne: Part 3 of 3 – Effect on the landscape. [French] Le Vigneron Champenois.

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• Combining precision viticulture technologies and economic indices to sustainable water use management. Water.
• Integrative approach of the hydraulic architecture and physiological thresholds of resistance to drought in cultivars. [French] Revue des Oenologues.
• Research supplement: Subsurface irrigation to reduce undervine weed growth. New Zealand Winegrower.
• Tapping into vineyard irrigation options. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.
• Winemaker trial: Optimizing irrigation efficiency with satellite technology. Wine Business Monthly.

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• New horizons: The benefits of free trade between Australia and India for wine exporters. Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker.