This issue of the Journal of Wine Economics begins with “The Political Economy of European Wine Regulations” by Giulia Meloni and Johan Swinnen. This paper analyzes the political economy mechanism that has created the existing complex system of wine regulations in the European Union. The authors show that many of the current EU regulations can be traced back to French regulations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: “After the accession of France into the EU, some of the policies were initially liberalized. However, surplus crises in the 1970s caused strong pressure from French producers to reimpose the regulations and extend them to the EU as a whole.”