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The Empirical Analysis of Terroir Versus Wine Pricing Relationships - The Case of the BC VQA Wines from the Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys

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  • Pankowska, Kate

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The British Columbia (BC) wine industry is a puzzle because of the juxtaposition in classification of BC as a New World wine-producing region, with its winemaking and vineyard management approach that resembles the Old World wine-producing countries. Unlike the New World wine regions, the BC wine industry doesn’t build around a flagship grape variety, but around the uniqueness of terroir 2. The latest developments on the policy side, including wine industry plebiscite (spring/summer 2016) proposed the establishment of new appellations (4) and sub-appellations (16). Currently, wineries in BC produce wines from grapes that not always come from terroir associated with the location of their estates suggesting terroir heterogeneity. Knowing that specifics of terroir influence grapes quality and as a consequence wine quality, and being aware that quality of wine is correlated with its price an interesting research question arises: Does terroir matter for wine pricing in case of the Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) wines? In particular, this research investigates how various terroir elements influence wine price formation of the selected BC VQA wines. L'industrie du vin de la Colombie-Britannique (C.-B.) ressemble à un casse-tête dû à la juxtaposition de la classification de la C.-B. comme une région productrice de vin du Nouveau Monde, avec son approche de gestion des vignobles et de la vinification qui ressemble aux pays producteurs de vin du Vieux Monde. Contrairement aux régions vinicoles du Nouveau Monde, l'industrie du vin de la C.-B. ne se construit pas autour d'une variété de raisins vedettes, mais autour de l'unicité d'un terroir2. Les derniers développements du côté politique, incluant le plébiscite de l'industrie vinicole (printemps/été 2016), proposent l'établissement de nouvelles appellations (4) et sous-appellations (16). Actuellement, les entreprises vinicoles de la C.-B. produisent du vin à partir de raisins qui ne proviennent pas toujours du terroir associé avec la localisation de leurs domaines ce qui suggère une hétérogénéité du terroir. Sachant que les spécificités du terroir influencent la qualité des raisins et par conséquent la qualité du vin, et reconnaissant la corrélation entre la qualité du vin et son prix, une intéressante question de recherche se pose: le terroir importe-t-il pour déterminer le prix du vin dans le cas des vins Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) des vallées de l'Okanagan et de Similkameen? Plus particulièrement, ce projet étudie comment différents éléments du terroir influencent la détermination du prix des vins BC VQA sélectionnés.

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  • Pankowska, Kate, 2017. "The Empirical Analysis of Terroir Versus Wine Pricing Relationships - The Case of the BC VQA Wines from the Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys," 7th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference, January 11-13, 2017, Ottawa, ON 253212, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:cafp17:253212
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.253212
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