oenography

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English

Etymology

From oeno- +‎ -graphy.

Noun

oenography (uncountable)

  1. Writing about wine.
    • 1994, South Australian Year Book, number 28, page 16:
      Two South Australian writers who have made their mark in twentieth-century oenography are Geoffrey Bishop and Bryce Rankine.
    • 2001, Wayward Tendrils Quarterly, page 42:
      But he also regarded viticulture as fitted "to increase the comforts, and promote the morality of the lower classes of the Colony" — a theme that persists through much of our nineteenth century oenography.