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Rooted in Change – book review

Tamlyn Currin
Tamlyn Currin
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A courageous book that tackles the unwieldy subject of sustainability in wine with extraordinary detail, pragmatism and warmth.

Rooted in Change
The stories behind sustainable wine
Jane Masters MW and Andrew Neather
Published by Académie du Vin Library
ISBN 9781917084703
£20

I have been waiting for a book on sustainability in wine for a long time. A few people have tried to approach this subject from different angles and thus far no one has quite got there – partly because ‘sustainability’ is a minefield. Even the word itself has come under (much-justified) fire for being misleading, misunderstood, misused or falling way...

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