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We've written about this one ad nauseam already. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times . For full tasting notes see The Wine Society's finds...

Jancis Robinson Saturday 12 April 2025 • 1 min read

Tasting articles The Wine Society's finds – spring 2025

Jancis Robinson Friday 11 April 2025 • 10 min read

Wine news in 5 Bottle lightweighting gains support, South Africa's rising exports, new smoke-taint study

Samantha Cole-Johnson Saturday 1 February 2025 • 1 min read

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Bottles straight from the furnace at Encirc

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Are lighter bottles in sight?

Wine producers have been complaining that bottles have been getting more difficult, and expensive, to source. Could lightweighting alleviate this...

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Waitrose autumn/winter 2022

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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New Year's resolutions revisited

So how did I do? COVID-19 largely did for me. A version of this article is published by the Financial...

Six designs for a paper Frugal wine bottle

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The glass may not be greener

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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Shipping air across the Pacific

A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Aware of glass bottles’ heavy carbon footprint, Rosemary Cakebread...

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More wines from east of Vienna

26 April 2021 More wines added from the Ukrainian winery Kolonist which perhaps prove the virtue of the earlier selection...

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Bottle weight – goodies and baddies

7 April 2021 See this report by Alder on Nomen, a new American wine brand deliberately packaged in high quality...

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Bottles, corks, forests and flights continued

Ramifications of carbon-emission considerations. Glass v the rest. Rail v air. And more. On Saturday, in Glass dimissed?, I put...

Flat plastic wine bottles from Garcon Wines

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Glass dismissed?

3 March 2020 See the end of this article for a response from FEVE – the European Container Glass Federation...

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Carbon footprints, wine and the consumer

12 December 2019 This article is so important that we are republishing it free so that as many people as...

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Fifty shades of green

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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Bottles – glass and plastic compared

Oxidation, oxidation, oxidation. Not a recent UK election slogan modelled on Tony Blair's 2007 priorities for government, 'Education, education, education'...