Steve ChartersSteve Charters is Director of Research in the School of Wine and Spirits Business, ESC Dijon/Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, France. He was previously Professor of Champagne Management at Reims Management School and before that taught at Edith owan University in Perth, Australia.

He develops research projects and courses relevant to the wine business generally. His research interests include the relationship of wine to place, drinker perceptions of quality in wine, the mythology surrounding wine consumption, the motivation to drink, and the motivations and experience of the wine tourist. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Wine Research, the British Food Journal and the International Journal of Wine Business Research and is one of only 300 members, worldwide, of the Institute of Masters of Wine. Read More Read Less