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Selection and management for South Australian vineyards
Nick Dry
Rootstocks are an undervalued management tool in Australia, habitually ignored despite their potential to provide viticultural benefits to growers in warm and cool climate vineyards. Too often the prevailing perception is that choosing a suitable rootstock for a particular vineyard site is hyper-complex and to be avoided. This publication will give growers, viticulturists and vineyard managers all the information necessary to make appropriate rootstock choices for their specific site and climate.
This publication is the culmination of three years of data collection and observations of rootstock performance in commercial vineyards across the major viticultural regions of South Australia.
Nick Dry graduated with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Viticulture) from the University of Adelaide in December 2000. He was employed by the Orlando Wyndham Group as a viticulturalist and spent time based in Padthaway and the Riverland. After spending seven months travelling, which included a vintage in the Franken region of Germany and visiting wine regions in Spain and Italy, Nick was appointed to the position of Rootstock Project Manager with the Phylloxera and Grape Industry Board of South Australia.
