A significant place of this issue of the journal is occupied by review questions of grape selection and ampelography. We present new wine grape variety ‘Stella’, publish materials on micropropagation of grapes, cultivation of organic grapes. As always, work in the area of plant protection is also a hot topic. Issues of development the base of raw materials of national viticulture and brandy production are the projection of the research of oenologists, but already in the technological aspect. These materials are presented as an analytical review based on the experience of the last twenty years and the original research.