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Who has not heard of the bubbly beverage champagne? Why does champagne command higher prices and higher brand equity than other sparkling wines? Because France has branded this natural resource. Winemakers produce champagne from grapes grown in the Champagne region in the north-east of France; the process requires secondary fermentation of the wine in the bottle to create carbonation. The Champagne winemaking community, under the auspices of the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (the trade organization established by statute to administer the common interests of the Champagne industry), has developed a comprehensive set of rules and regulations for all wine produced in Champagne, to protect the region’s economic interests. It has codified the most suitable growing places, the most suitable grape types (most champagne being a blend of up to three grape varieties, although other varieties are allowed), and most aspects of viticulture, including pruning, vineyard yield, the degree of pressing, and the time that the wine must remain on its lees1 before bottling. Only after meeting all these requirements may a winemaker label the product “champagne.”
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Elizabeth Barham (2003), “Translating Terroir: The Global Challenge of French AOC labeling,” Journal of Rural Studies, 19, 127–38.
Cf. Johan Bruwer and Ray Johnson (2010), “Place-based Marketing and the Regional Branding Perspective in the California Wine Industry,” Journal of Consumer Marketing, 27 (1), 5–16.
Cf. Larry Lockshin et al. (2006), “Using Simulations From Discrete Choice Experiments To Measure Consumer Sensitivity to Brand, Region, Price, and Awards in Wine Choice,” Food Quality and Preference, 17 (2–3), 166–78.
Based on Luis Fernando Samper, “Café de Colombia: Protecting and Promoting a Well-Known Origin,” presentation given in Beijing, June 2007. For the importance of knowledge about the supply chains for agricultural products, see Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp (1997), “Dynamics in Consumer Behavior With Respect to Agricultural and Food Products,” in Berend Wierenga, Aad van Tilburg, Klaus Grunert, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp and Michel Wedel (eds.), Agricultural Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in a Changing World, Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 143–88.
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Kumar, N., Steenkamp, JB.E.M. (2013). The Natural Resources Route. In: Brand Breakout. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276629_8
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