Bodegas Torres aims to lessen its carbon footprint by reducing the weight of its bottles used in wines such as Sangre de Toro and Viña Sol.

The company produces 18.7m Burgundy-shaped bottles per year, and in reducing their weight by 16.67%, will reduce the carbon emissions produced in making the bottles by the same amount.

Lightening the bottles will also lessen the amount of C02 emissions from the vehicles used to transport the wines.

Bottled at the end of May and destined for the European and American markets, Viña Sol 2008 is the first wine to be released in the new lighter bottles.

Torres is also set to reduce the weight of its Bordeaux-shaped bottles, of which 5.1m are produced annually.

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Lucy Shaw
Lucy Shaw
Decanter Magazine, Restaurant Critic, Wine Writer & Editor

Lucy Shaw is a wine and spirits editor and writer, based in London. She joined Decanter 2007 as Editorial Assistant and left three years later to join The Drinks Business, where she is now the editor. Her special interests are the wine regions of Spain, South America and Champagne, as well as reviewing the latest restaurants on London’s dining scene.