[f. L. vīni-, vīnum wine + CULTURE sb.] The cultivation of grapes for the production of wine.
1871. Echo, 3 Jan. The fair for the best and newest specimens of viniculture has been held in Florence last week.
1882. Advance (Chicago), 23 Nov. Viniculture from year to year is gaining ground in Southern Palestine.
1891. H. M. Stephens, Portugal, 368. He did not neglect to encourage agriculture and viniculture.
Hence Vinicultural a.; Viniculturist.
1888. Voice (N. Y.), 5 July. The Vinicultural Commission will establish in San Francisco … a Wine Exchange.
1888. Sci. Amer., 24 Nov., 327/2. The harvesting of the grape crop is the period of anxiety for the viniculturist.
