The importance of landscape in wine quality perception: An integrated approach using choice-based conjoint analysis and combination-based permutation tests

作者：Tempesta Tiziano^*; Giancristofaro Rosa Arboretti; Corain Livio; Salmaso Luigi; Tomasi Diego; Boatto Vasco

来源：Food Quality and Preference, 2010, 21(7): 827-836.

DOI：10.1016/j.foodqual.2010.04.007

• Wine sensory valuation
• Landscape
• Choice experiment
• Multivariate permutation tests
• Segmentation

This work's aim is to evaluate the importance of landscape in wine quality perception using a novel integrated approach based on two statistical techniques, i.e. choice-based conjoint analysis (Gustafsson et al., 2001) and combination-based permutation tests (Corain & Salmaso, 2004; Pesarin & Salmaso, 2009a). To this end we developed a preference choice experiment which was submitted to a sample of respondents during blind wine tasting meetings. The obtained results allow us to weigh up and emphasise the importance of an attractive landscape to the perception of a finer quality of wine. Indeed, we noticed that associating wine to an image of greater visual impact, i.e. an evocative landscape, induces a significantly higher preference for the tasted wine. Moreover, the integrated application of choice-based conjoint analysis and combination-based permutation tests allows us to identify the specific relationship each market segment has with landscape, price and wine quality.

• 出版日期2010-10