The Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference (AWITC) is the premier technical event for the Australian wine industry. Held every three years since 1970, it combines an extensive program of plenary sessions, workshops, posters, student forums, and social events with the industry’s most respected and extensive trade exhibition. The AWITC has two members: The Australian Wine Research Institute and the Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology.

The 18th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference and Trade Exhibition was conducted from 26th-29th June 2022 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. The 18th AWITC featured 11 core plenary sessions with 49 presentations. The AWITC incorporates the Australian Grape & Wine Outlook Conference, which presents the latest wine business, policy, and marketing content, focusing on the future prosperity of the sector, as well as WineTech, the Australian wine industry’s most extensive and relevant trade exhibition.

This Special Issue welcomes research topics presented at the 18th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Tartrate instability
• Reductive development of white wine during bottle aging
• Chemical composition and sensory properties in smoke-affected wines
• Damage assessment and grapevine recovery after fire
• Remote sensing of grapevine viral diseases
• Machine learning techniques
• Wine quality and innovation
• Vineyard health and biodiversity
• Solving problems with technology
• A focus on carbon and water
• Bio-acidification of wines
• Sensory properties and consumer acceptance of dry red wine
• Vineyard management practices to counteract heatwaves
• Genetics of grapevine clonal identity