What's the difference between oenology and viticulture?

Oenology


Definition:

  • (n.) Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ethanol dosage automation, very important in oenology, is very difficult to carry out.
  • (2) On the other side, it has been tested that if one abolished the use of asbestos for filtering wines, they would not be altered from the oenological point of view.
  • (3) In oenology the methods are essentially used for research.
  • (4) Automatic dosages took place a short time ago in oenology laboratories.
  • (5) Montenegrin enthusiasm for oenology can be dangerous, as they haven't really grasped the concept of a wine tasting yet.
  • (6) Hybrid strains, with desirable oenological properties, were obtained by mass spore-cell mating between a heterothallic killer yeast and two homothallic sensitive strains and all were shown to have unique DNA fingerprints and electrophoretic karyotypes.
  • (7) Recently, oenological prejudices were challenged by the use of a points scoring system (from 50 to 100) to evaluate wine in a book now widely regarded as one of the most authoritative.
  • (8) Casting his powerfully subversive, silent gaze round the table as a wine master held forth, Baker seemed determined to get his fellow members to "corpse": he had no time whatever for oenological waffle.
  • (9) This is why they are only used in analytic oenology when chemical analysis is most specific enough or too laborious.

Viticulture


Definition:

  • (n.) The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Imperialism The Life of Brian Despite a long and mostly historically accurate list of things the Romans did for us (sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, viticulture, public order and peace), the People's Front of Judea continues its campaign to drive them out.
  • (2) Viticulture has history here: the industry grew in the 12th century to meet the demands of thirsty pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago , which passes through Navarra.
  • (3) Seven different endpoints for detection of genotoxicity have been used to demonstrate the DNA-altering properties of Dichlofluanid, a fungicide commonly used in viticulture pest control.
  • (4) The natural yeast flora of musts and wines elaborated in wineries of the three Madrid viticultural areas, has been taxonomically analyzed.
  • (5) It is found that the distilling and brewing industries are highly concentrated and oligopolistic, while viticulture is more fragmented and regional in character.
  • (6) In a field investigation (1983-1985) comprising eight places of the most important viticultural regions in the Federal Republic of Germany, the contents of the radionuclides tritium (3H), carbon-14 (14C), strontium-90 (90Sr), and cesium-137 (137Cs) in air, soils, leaves of the vine, grapes and wine were measured and site-specific transfer factors were calculated.
  • (7) Natural (tritium, 14C, 40K, 226Ra) and man-made radionuclides (90Sr, 134Cs, 137Cs) were determined in soil (top 30 cm), vine leaves, grapes and wine in eight locations of the most important viticultural regions in the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • (8) These phenotypes were studied in the collection cultures of the Institute of Viticulture and Viniculture and in the samples of fermented grape must.

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