Journal of Wine Research 

About: Journal of Wine Research is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Wine & Winery. It has an ISSN identifier of 0957-1264. Over the lifetime, 599 publications have been published receiving 12225 citations.

Sensory evaluation of food principles and practices

Abstract: Sensory evaluation of food principles and practices (2nd ed.), by Harry Lawless and Hildegarde Heymann, New York, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010, 596 pp., £53.99 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4...

The concept of terroir in viticulture

Abstract: Terroir is a highly important concept in viticulture because it relates the sensory attributes of wine to the environmental conditions in which the grapes are grown. Quality hierarchy and wine style may, to a considerable extent, be explained by terroir. However, terroir is difficult to study on a scientific basis because many factors are involved, including climate, soil, cultivar and human practices, and these factors interact. The best expression of terroir is achieved when the precocity of the grapevine variety is suited to the local climatic conditions in such a way that full ripeness is reached by the end of the growing season. For the production of high quality red wines, environmental conditions should induce moderate vine vigour, either through moderate water deficit stress or through low nitrogen supply. These conditions are most frequently met on shallow or stony soils, in moderately dry climates. Regular but not excessive vine water and nitrogen supplies are needed to produce high qua...

The Quality of Grapes and Wine in Relation to Geography: Notions of Terroir at Various Scales

Abstract: Terroir has many facets. It has been related to: variety of plants and typical food products; territory, name, strategies of advertising and marketing. A viticultural terroir is seldom defined as a region which is related to a particular area with a distinct quality of grapes and their wines. The scale of analysis of the few available discussions by area range from local to a broad spatial coverage: ' local functional ' approaches emphasise quality controlled by ecology and physiology; ' spatial ' approaches depend on the diversity of viticultural environments from area to area. The combination of spatial modelling and geographical information system (GIS) data can update the concept of terroir provided the area, scale and resolution of each so-called terroir -unit are more carefully specified and fully related to viticultural data.

A Review of Global Wine Tourism Research

Abstract: Wine tourism as a discrete field of research is inchoate, yet there has been rapid development in this field since the mid 1990s. The hosting of the first Australian Wine Tourism Conference in 1998 was the first forum in which wine tourism researchers from the public and private sector were able to present their work to their colleagues. Importantly, much of the wine and tourism industry were involved in that conference and served to guide the direction of wine tourism research from that point on. Hence much of the research that is presently available is applied and practical and includes a body of work on wine tourism conceptualisation, wine tourists and wine tourism destinations. Initially most of this work took the form of case studies and cross‐sectional ‘snapshots’ of wine tourism, with a noted absence of any theoretical underpinnings or conceptual framework to set the context of the research. This article reviews existing attempts to frame wine tourism research and suggests an approach that recognis...

Wine Tourism Behaviour in the Context of a Motivational Framework for Wine Regions and Cellar Doors

Abstract: Most wine tourists and visitors to wine regions can be viewed as actual or potential consumers of a lifestyle beverage, who visit wine regions in order to have wine‐related experiences. An exploratory wine tourism research study in the Coonawarra and McLaren Vale wine regions in South Australia measured the motivations for engaging in wine tourism and specific behaviours related thereto. The results of the study are exposited by means of a suggested conceptual motivational framework for wine tourism. The framework is a simple construct consisting of three main dimensions: the Visitor, Wine Region and Visit Dynamic (viewed in terms of first‐time or repeat visitation). As an adjunct to these, there are multivariate evolving sub‐dimensions of motivation and behaviour related to geographic location of wine region, purpose of visit, etc., which augment the main dimensions. The results revealed that in the Wine Region dimension motivation is affected in terms of geographic location in relation to the permanent ...