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Wine needs a new social contract
Guest contributor
Wednesday 11 February 2026
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Wine production – who pays the price?
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 14 June 2025
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8 June 2023 We don’t publish many heartfelt pleas but this is one worth republishing free. There may be encouraging...
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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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In her previous article, Louise Hurren examined the impact of drought on Mexico's vineyards. Here she looks at farming choices...
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An annual check-in with Burgundian wunderkind Charles Lachaux at his Vosne-Romanée estate. Above, Lachaux (centre) preaches to the press about...
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We can make a difference – and other takeaways from the Sustainable Wine Roundtable’s latest conference.
Last month, the Sustainable...
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A pair of sustainably produced bargains.
From €7.99, £11.95, $14.99, 242.65 Brazilian reais for the white 2021
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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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Severe drought and extreme heat pose a significant threat to wine production – especially in Baja California, Mexico (although see...
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Ecological economics, the theory and practice of disruptive, sustainable economic systems such as degrowth economics, is something we’re going to...
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Caroline Gilby MW points out that western Slovenia is ahead of the sustainability game – so far. You can’t help...
Book reviews
Books on wine-related sustainability issues still have a long way to go.
Crushed How a changing climate is altering the...
Wines of the week
Continuing with last week's theme of highly unusual wines, this wine of the week is a no-added-sulphite crémant from Luxembourg...
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10 November 2022 As the absolutely vital COP27 conference in Egypt on how to achieve the world's climate goals continues...
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As our 2022 wine writing competition draws to a close, we are sharing some of the feedback you provided in...
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15 September 2022 Very many thanks to the hundreds of readers who have already voted for their favourite entries from...
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A 600-ha estate in the northern Corbières is being ambitiously and ecologically transformed by Aymeric Izard and Anne Besse, seen...
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