“…The present study aims to understand how culture, social origins, and social class influence the social representations of sparkling wine. Some studies aim at understanding the social aspect of sparkling wine consumption [13; 20, 42], and others focus on sparkling wine preferences [66,67,39,68,42], its intrinsic and/ or extrinsic attributes [69,70,71,41], and the sparkling wine market [72,73,74]. No studies have explored social representations of sparkling wine or made a comparison between the Old World and traditional wine countries against the New World and non-traditional wine countries, such as France and Brazil, or even that sparkling wine is a distinct category of wine, and an important product in the wine sector.…”