With the wine industry searching for ways to reduce the climate impact of its global transportation network, Louise Hurren looks at how wind is being used to help decarbonise wine.
I stood shivering and crestfallen on a blustery, grey morning in London’s St Katharine Docks. It was 2008 and I was working for a French wine brand associated with the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV) and their Fair Wind Wine venture.
Languedoc wines were being shipped from France to the UK on a 108-year-old, triple-masted wooden sailing schooner. Journalists were waiting to taste the wines...