Wine and the wine trade are steeped in culture and history; few products have consistently enjoyed both cultural … importance and such wide distribution over time--even seen by some as "an elixir of life". While wine has been produced and … consumed for centuries, what is distinctive about the economics of wine? Professor Marks's book is an accessible exploration of …

Wine and the wine trade are steeped in culture and history; few products have consistently enjoyed both cultural … importance and such wide distribution over time--even seen by some as "an elixir of life". While wine has been produced and … consumed for centuries, what is distinctive about the economics of wine? Professor Marks's book is an accessible exploration of …

We propose to establish wine rankings using scores that depend on the differences between favorable and unfavorable … opinions about each wine, according to the Borda rule. Unlike alternative approaches and specifications, this method is well … acyclicity. As an illustration, we apply the method to rank wines assessed by different experts and compare the resulting ranking …