The concept of terroir tested: sharing of the same terroir between two EU Member States

This article looks into wine as a credence product, whose bond of trust is vested in the concept of terroir as a signal to the consumer that the wine she or he is buying originates from a specific location and is made in specific circumstances. The main question of the present analysis is what the l...

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Published in:Journal of intellectual property law & practice 2021-04, Vol.16 (4-5), p.435-441
Main Author: Marušić, Branka
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
credence product
geographical indications
terroir
wine
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Summary:This article looks into wine as a credence product, whose bond of trust is vested in the concept of terroir as a signal to the consumer that the wine she or he is buying originates from a specific location and is made in specific circumstances. The main question of the present analysis is what the legal consequences are when such terroir is shared between two EU Member States, looking into the examples of wines Tokaj and Teran.Arguments advanced in the article are that, on the EU-wide level, there are two effects of the shared terroir. The first effect is a shared PDO; and the second effect is an artificial enlargement of terroir that is not linked to the original geographical position. 
ISSN:1747-1532
1747-1540
1747-1540
DOI:10.1093/jiplp/jpab019