This issue of the Journal of Wine Economics is devoted to cooperative wine produc- ers. Cooperatives play a very important role in many countries even though they are not as visible in the wine market. In Italy, about 50% of all wine is produced by coop- eratives (Mazzarino and Corsi, 2015). About 30% of German vineyards are farmed by members of wine cooperatives (DRV, 2016). In France, almost two-thirds of all grape growers belong to a wine cooperative and in the Americas, Argentinian wine cooperatives represent more than 20% of total production (Karlsson and Karlsson, 2015)…READ MORE