ampelography

English

Etymology

French ampélographie, from ampelo- (“vine”) +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

ampelography (uncountable)

1. (botany, oenology) The discipline within botany concerned with the taxonomy of cultivars in the grapevine genus, Vitis.
   • 1986 August 6, Howard G. Goldberg, “Wine Talk”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, page C18:

     She is the American apostle of Pierre Galet, a Frenchman whose internationally recognized contribution to ampelography, or the science of classifying grape vines, rests on identifying leaf design and the appearance of a vine's growing tips.

   • 1993 October 17, Arthur Lubow, “What's Killing the Grapevines of Napa?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Scientists are just now devising a genetic test to distinguish one rootstock from another. Until they do, the only recourse is the arcane art of ampelography, in which the vines are identified by physical appearance. Like art authenticators, ampelographers practice a craft that they would have others think is a science.

   • 1993, Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Volume 8, Australian Wine Research Institute, page 78:

     The mainstay of grapevine identification is the science of ampelography, and manuals of ampelography (Galet 1971) are the major resource for grapevine identification.

Related terms

• ampelographer
• ampelographic
• ampelology

Translations

science of grapevine cultivars

• French: ampélographie (fr)
• Georgian: ამპელოგრაფია (ka) (amṗelograpia)
• German: Ampelographie (de) f
• Italian: ampelografia (it) f
• Polish: ampelografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ampelografia f
• Spanish: ampelografía f