Vine cultivation is strongly dependent on local terrain conditions, including geology, landforms and soils. This offers an opportunity to develop interpretation and geo-education that would holistically relate wine culture to abiotic environment. Wine-related cultural landscapes inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and those UNESCO Global Geoparks, where wine production is an important economic activity or leaves a distinctive imprint on the landscape, are particularly suited to emphasize local geoheritage in this specific context. We analyzed official web-based resources of UNESCO World Heritage Committee, UNESCO Global Geoparks programme, individual World Heritage properties and individual global geoparks to evaluate whether causal relationships between geoheritage, geodiversity and wine culture are indicated at all, and if so, how they are presented and linked to geotourism and geo-education. Our analysis involved 14 World Heritage properties and 38 global geoparks, all located in Europe. General observation is that given web-based information alone, the theme is insufficiently explored and poorly communicated to the public, although more recent nomination dossiers for World Heritage contain extensive presentations of abiotic environment. These are, however, not very likely to be consulted by the general public. In global geoparks, wine culture is mainly presented as a sustainable local activity, with local wine as one of brand products, whereas geoheritage context is seldom considered in depth. Growing interest in wine tourism and increasing appreciation of the value of cultural landscapes provide a good background to develop geo-interpretation and thereby to raise awareness of geoheritage matters.

葡萄种植在很大程度上取决于当地的地形条件，包括地质、地貌和土壤。这为发展将葡萄酒文化与非生物环境整体联系起来的解释和地理教育提供了机会。列入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录的与葡萄酒相关的文化景观和那些联合国教科文组织世界地质公园，其中葡萄酒生产是一项重要的经济活动或在景观上留下独特的印记，特别适合在这种特定背景下强调当地的地质遗产。我们分析了联合国教科文组织世界遗产委员会、联合国教科文组织世界地质公园计划、个别世界遗产和个别世界地质公园的官方网络资源，以评估是否表明地质遗产、地质多样性和葡萄酒文化之间的因果关系，如果有，它们如何呈现并与地理旅游和地理教育相关联。我们的分析涉及 14 个世界遗产和 38 个全球地质公园，它们都位于欧洲。一般观察结果是，尽管最近的世界遗产提名档案包含大量非生物环境的介绍，但仅就基于网络的信息而言，该主题没有得到充分探索，也没有很好地向公众传达。然而，一般公众不太可能咨询这些问题。在全球地质公园中，葡萄酒文化主要作为一种可持续的本土活动呈现，本土葡萄酒作为品牌产品之一，而很少深入考虑地理遗产背景。