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Strengthening US wine labelling, new EU trade deals, market reports, more bottles lighten up
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 30 January 2026
• 1 min read
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The Wine Society's finds – spring 2025
Jancis Robinson
Friday 11 April 2025
• 14 min read
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14 July 2023 As a result of its detailed Alternative Packaging for Wine report published in May, The Wine Society...
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Wine producers have been complaining that bottles have been getting more difficult, and expensive, to source. Could lightweighting alleviate this...
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It's always worth seeing what this superior UK supermarket with its particularly fine sherries at bargain prices is up to...
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So how did I do? COVID-19 largely did for me. A version of this article is published by the Financial...
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28 October 2021 In the lead-up to the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow we're republishing this article about wine...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
Aware of glass bottles’ heavy carbon footprint, Rosemary Cakebread...
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26 April 2021 More wines added from the Ukrainian winery Kolonist which perhaps prove the virtue of the earlier selection...
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7 April 2021 See this report by Alder on Nomen, a new American wine brand deliberately packaged in high quality...
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Ramifications of carbon-emission considerations. Glass v the rest. Rail v air. And more.
On Saturday, in Glass dimissed?, I put...
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3 March 2020 See the end of this article for a response from FEVE – the European Container Glass Federation...
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12 December 2019 This article is so important that we are republishing it free so that as many people as...
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20 September 2019 In line with today's Earth Strike Day's events around the globe designed to encourage action in the...
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Oxidation, oxidation, oxidation. Not a recent UK election slogan modelled on Tony Blair's 2007 priorities for government, 'Education, education, education'...
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Those who have been following our campaign against unnecessarily heavy wine bottles (see, for example, Name and shame heavy bottles)...
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Given our long-standing campaign to promote lighter and more recyclable packaging, and especially to name and shame those who continue...
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There are heartening signs that heavy wine bottles are on the way out. As many of you know, we have...
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