Rudnіeva M. Geography of the world wine clusters

Dissertation is dedicated to the investigation of world wine clusters geography, clustering process in winemaking industry, especially in socio-geographic aspects of forming and functioning world's wine clusters.A variety of "cluster" definitions and its key characteristics were considered. It was suggested new definition to add to a cluster's concept: "out of cluster space" and "out of cluster element".Conditions and factors that have an impact on cluster formation according to "Porter's diamond" were analyzed and ranked. It's influenced on wine clusters geospatial spreading were detected.Nowadays real and potential wine clusters also were detected and classified.Mechanisms of realization of the cluster's initiatives in Ukrainian winemaking industry are formulated.