by Sara Gow | Mar 28, 2021 | Environmental Responsibility
Climate change has led to an ‘unprecedented’ era of summer droughts in recent years, says new research that could also have implications for wine. by Chris MercerMarch 18,2021 Summer droughts in Europe since 2015 been more severe than at any period in the past 2,110...
by Sara Gow | Mar 28, 2021 | Environmental Responsibility
GM corn presidential decree comes despite intense pressure from industry, U.S. authorities. by Timothy A. Wise Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year’s Eve decree to phase out use of the herbicide...
by Sara Gow | Mar 17, 2021 | Environmental Responsibility
Many of you will know that we are keenly aware that wine’s biggest carbon footprint is created by the manufacture and transport of glass bottles. We’ve written extensively (ad nauseam?) on the subject and we know that many wine lovers are concerned about those...
by Sara Gow | Jul 27, 2020 | Humor
How is Covid-19 like the fine wine industry? Full of closures, some opened too soon, others need more time. and nobody can agree on who the experts are. (contribution from Peter Westen): Everyone’s obsessed with letting it breathe. Everyone’s a damn critic. Contains...
by Sara Gow | Jul 17, 2020 | Environmental Responsibility
Consumers don’t have access to much information about how businesses operate, but they can ask questions and focus on one tangible item, the bottle. Wine is particularly susceptible to climate change because the grapes are vulnerable to the nuances of weather. The...
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