Comments on: Barges, musical, Thanksgiving, storefront – tasting sized pours

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:49:28 +0000

Anthony –

In my research on the carbon footprint of wine, I found that local wines and low-quality (high-quantity) wines often had the lowest level of CO2 emissions. Depending on where you are, the local may not cause a problem. But the other…

Props to you for the J. Nossiter reference!

Jacob –

Yes about the energy. But still the mass of the glass is more significant. Ditto quality comment from above.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:19:17 +0000

An argument can be made (and is) that a bottling plant in the UK will run off a not-so-green coal-generated electricity source, whereas New Zealand, for instance, is more likely to use a renewable resource to provide the same service… thus rendering the ‘food-mile’ argument more complicated.

As for the barges, it’s just a shame Tesco will go through all that trouble, but won’t put better tasting wines in the bottles.

By: Anthony Nicalo

Anthony Nicalo — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:37:06 +0000

Tesco’s green efforts deserve applause. I do fear that such applause has a tendency to reinforce consolidation and corporate dominance in the wine trade. It seems that huge economies of scale are required to move wine in a greener fashion. I don’t mean to sound like J. Nossiter, but wine is pretty hard to move in “bulk” unless it is also manufactured in the same style.