Would ‘New World’ wines benefit from protected geographical indications in international markets? The case of Argentinean Malbec

Geographical Indications, Public Goods, and Sustainable Development: The Roles of Actors’ Strategies and Public Policies

“…The virtuous economic model is just beginning and quality rent generally remains too low to cover all the investments relating to the three pillars of firm development, collective action on promotion and control, and local resource management mentioned in part two. Difficulties "priming the pump" are increased by (i) strong external competition between different segments of the wine market, whether GIs or not (Defrancesco, Orrego, & Gennari, 2012); and (ii) the need to bring the different projects of wine producers together at a time when the gains of GI collective action can only be anticipated (Niederle & Gelain, 2013). Facing such economic uncertainty, actors may solve coordination problems in both quality collective building and local resource management, as Touzard and Vandecandelaere (2005) have shown regarding the new wine routes in Argentina and South Africa.…”

“…The second type is obviously dominant in the case of "new world wines", although some high quality PDO or PGI (type 1 or 3) wines have also been developing for more than a century in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, California and South Africa (Defrancesco et al, 2012). In the "old world" of wine, the 4 types co-exist equally, as the 2006 national survey of French PGIs shows (Ollagnon & Touzard, 2007).…”

The region-of-origin effect in the purchase of wine: The moderating role of familiarity

“…As we noted above, most of the studies on the placeof-origin effect have focused on the nation level and further research is needed on the ROO effect (González & Villanueva, 2001;Pharr, 2005;De Francesco et al, 2012). Based on the literature review, we designed the structural model shown in Fig.…”

“…the country-of-origin effect (Claret et al, 2012;Godey et al, 2012;Lee et al, 2013;Lagerkvist et al, 2014). Conversely, the study of the region-of-origin (ROO) effect has been left somewhat in the background (González & Villanueva, 2001;Pharr, 2005;De Francesco et al, 2012). However, there are some product categories, such as wine, in which the differentiating attributes are generated by the characteristics of a specific region of the country.…”

Fictive place

“…Not only did they define particular places -their names and boundaries -but also some attempted to define and regulate the characteristics of the product, such as the grape varieties that could be used, the yields, the winemaking techniques and quality indicators. The wine sector GIs spread rapidly, though outside Europe there tended to be rather lighter regulations, defining places but not restricting the production techniques (Jurca, 2013;Murray and Overton, 2011;Defrancescoa et al, 2012). Thus, for wine, there was the USA's American Viticultural Area (AVA) (Moran, 1993b), Chile's Denominacio´n de Origen (DO) designation and South Africa's Wine of Origin.…”