“…The quality wine market provides relevant ground for testing the benefit of semiotic methods in several ways: (1) all wines in this category are sold in bottles and systematically branded with labels in all countries of the world; (2) the branding is always multi-brand, allowing the evaluation of the discursive structure and its current modelling, from a very large corpus; (3) the branding combines private brands created by producers and collective and certification brands, most often of a public nature, which requires more complex analyses to understand the tension between the necessary individual differentiation and the mandatory sharing of common narrative units (Bobrie, 2010); (4) the stories of wine call on recurrent figures and themes, strongly rooted in social practices that are often multisecular, which lead the narrative towards 'imposed figures', but without neglecting the 'free figures' (Celhay and Passebois, 2011;D'Hauteville and Sirieix, 2007;Pantin-Sohier et al, 2015); (5) on the French market, Bordeaux and Beaujolais wines have a long history and a strong reputation among consumers, which facilitates the knowledge of the representations expected by the intended receivers, but on the other hand makes it more difficult for sender-enunciators in search of strong, distinctive identities to create original discourses; finally, as for all wines, (5) because of legal restrictions on media advertising, labelling and the bottle are at the centre of communication towards consumers and its message is particularly crucial for success.…”