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Terroir, Institutions and Improvements in European Wine History: An Introduction

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The project of a book collecting papers about different European wine regions was developed during Spring 2017 by Paolo Tedeschi and Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro, scholars in economic history and members of the informal group of research about the Italian Oeno-History

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For the increasing interest and relevance of the “wine history and wine economics” and the rapid rise of its social and economic relevance throughout the world, it is important to remember the launch in 2006 of the “Journal of Wine Economics” (Cambridge UP) edited by the American Association of Wine Economists: it joined the “International Journal of Wine Business Research”, the official outlet of the Academy of Wine Business Research, which was launched in 1989 (under the name of “International Journal of Wine Business Marketing”). Concerning in particular the wine history see, among others, the following publications which also include relevant studies on legislation in the wine sector: Unwin (1996, 236–321), Bisson et al. ( 2002, 696–699), Campbell and Guibert (2007), Simpson (2011), Lukacs (2012), Harvey et al. (2014), Harvey and Waye (2014), Tattersall and De Salle ( 2015), Meloni and Swinnen (2016), Anderson et al. (2017), Anderson and Pinilla (2018), and Alonso et al. (2019).

  2. 2.

    It is impossible to quote every recent article and book about French and Italian wines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Only considering the volume and papers published by academic historians and agronomies in the new Millennium it is possible to see, among others: for France see Lachiver (1988), Sagnes (1993), Paul (1996), Stengel (2013), Bodinier et al. (2014), Le Bras (2017, 2019). For Italy , Pedrocco (2000), Failla and Scienza (2001), Agnoletti (2002), Gangemi and Ritrovato (2002), Tedeschi (2003, 2017), Zoia (2004), Leonardi (2006), Ciuffoletti (2009), Dandolo (2010), Maffi (2010, 2012), Ottolino (2011), Mainardi and Berta (2013), Mocarelli (2013), Gasparini (2014), Carassale (2014), and Zanotti (2015). In Italy the substantial interest in this topic is also demonstrated in particular by the eight volume collection concerning the regional history of vines and wine (Storia regionale della vite e del vino in Italia) and by the other numerous books edited by important experts in oenology as well as professional sommelliers.

  3. 3.

    Among the major limits of this collection, the lack of contributions on Castilla-La Mancha, the Spanish region that currently covers 46% of the Spanish vineyard area and 13.6% of that of the EU, and on other relevant French and Italian wine regions. However, it is evident that it was not possible to consider all European wine regions. About the Spanish wine sector see Muñoz Moreno (2009). Besides about the German wine sector, other the contribution of Thomas Schuetz in these volumes, see Bird (2005) and Brook (2006). Finally, about the Hungarian wine sector see Rohály et al. (2003).

  4. 4.

    The relevance of the cooperative wineries for the European wine sector is put in evidence in lots of contributions of these volumes. See also, among others, Planas (2016) and Simpson (2000).

  5. 5.

    On French viticulturists and winemakers and their relations with the State and with wine retailers see, among others, Sagnes (2008), Bagnol (2010), Lucand (2011), Palaude (2012), Le Bras (2013), and Planas (2015).

  6. 6.

    About the relevance of rules established by the European institutions for the European wine secter see, other the contributes in these volumes, Gaeta and Corsinovi (2014).

  7. 7.

    For recent studies on the wine industry see also The Journal of Wine Economics, The International Journal of Wine Business Research, as well as the Conference proceedings of the Academy of Wine Business Research from 2003 to 2014 (http://academyofwinebusiness.com). For wine tourism see, among others, Hall et al. (2000), Carlsen and Charters (2006), Asero and Patti (2009), Boatto and Gennari (2011), Cavicchi and Santini (2014), and Vaquero Piñeiro (2015b).

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Conca Messina, S.A., Le Bras, S., Tedeschi, P., Piñeiro, M.V. (2019). Terroir, Institutions and Improvements in European Wine History: An Introduction. In: Conca Messina, S., Le Bras, S., Tedeschi, P., Vaquero Piñeiro, M. (eds) A History of Wine in Europe, 19th to 20th Centuries, Volume II. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27794-9_1

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