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Lebanon’s new wave: Top estates and 10 fascinating wines to try
Rupert Joy visited top estates in this beautiful and historic country...
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Global Reference Framework for wine sustainability launched
The tool is designed to achieve a more consistent and robust approach to sustainability...
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SWR launches ground-breaking accord on reducing glass bottle weight
Leading retailers commit to reducing average wine bottle weight...
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Decoding regenerative viticulture plus the best bottles to seek out
Beyond organic, it’s about healthy soils and ecosystems, as Rupert Joy explains...
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Alternative wine packaging: thinking inside the box
Rupert Joy on looking beyond the glass bottle...
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Leading wine professionals sign letter calling for alternative packaging
The letter highlights the environmental impact of glass manufacturing and recycling...
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Adapting vineyards to a changing climate: Torres looks to the future
Remodelling viticultural practices in the battle against climate change...
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Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium
The symposium focused on the challenges presented by climate change...
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New group promotes regenerative viticulture in climate battle
New Regenerative Viticulture Foundation launched...
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Wine bottles: A heavy price
Making glass wine bottles lighter is an easy way to reduce wine’s carbon emissions – yet it remains a weighty issue for the industry...
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Climate change: rethinking your drinking
Winemaking has an impact on the environment – that’s inarguable. Efforts to lessen that impact have begun across the industry, but what can the concerned consumer do? Rupert Joy finds out.
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Wine Future 2021: Virtual conference addresses key issues from Covid to climate
Online event sees big names from the across the wine world lead discussions on major issues...
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No sulphites added wine: the great debate
Rupert Joy gives an overview of the issue, weighing the pros and cons of an SO2-free approach
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Unearthing The Secrets Of Wine Ageing
What actually makes wine age? And why do some evolve better than others? Rupert Joy explores the multi-layered mysteries of maturation
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Climate change: Time to act
Industry needs to lead by example...
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Wine world needs more urgency on climate change, says Torres
Most people in the wine industry still do not understand the urgency of acting together against climate change, Spain's Miguel Torres has warned.
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How sustainable is your wine?
What are the measures being taken to find a lasting solution...?
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Al Gore tells wine industry to act on ‘global emergency’ of climate change
The former US Vice president addressed the wine and climate change conference...
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Terroir: the truth
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France/Burgundy: How domaines are transferred to the next generation
As well-heeled investors target prime vineyards, and new inheritance laws bite, RUPERT JOY asks if Burgundy’s small domaines can survive in family hands
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Wine documentary galvanises Cannes
Quentin Tarantino himself will judge a new film which claims there is a guerilla war being waged in the wine world, with its own cast of collaborators, refuseniks and resistance fighters.
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World’s top producers resist GM
A group of major wine producers has declared its opposition to testing of genetically modified vines.
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Efforts intensify to stem crisis as France faces bumper crop
The bumper grape harvest forecast for 2004 looks set to intensify the crisis afflicting the French wine industry.
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Renou will push reforms ‘to the limit’
French appellations chief René Renou is determined to push his reforms through – and has slammed the great regions for believing they have ‘divine right’ not to change.
