A unique winery in Western Maharashtra is utilising water recycling, solar power and waste reduction in an effort to avoid the environmental damage linked to wine production in California
… Valley': Sula vineyard pioneers eco-friendly wine in an emerging market Joseph Mayton | 4th May 2012 News Food And Farming Wine Investigations Solar Powerr … india's-first-sauvingon-blanc.jpg A unique winery in Western Maharashtra is utilising …
Closing a bottle with cork significantly reduces the carbon footprint of wine packaging and helps sustain vital ecosystems.
… Wine, corks and ecosystems Nick Breeze | 17th February 2020 News Cork Wine Making Carbon Footprint Science & Systems Cork Co2 sequestration Amorim wine closure Closing a bottle with cork …
Eco-labelled wine corks have just hit the market in a move to protect cork forests, which are threatened by a switch to metal screw top and plastic stoppers
… Corked? 7th August 2007 News Cork Wine Eco-label Forests Farming Agribusiness … Farming News web pic 2_66.jpg Eco-labelled wine corks have just hit the market in a move … is the first to produce cork oak wine stoppers that are Forest Stewardship …
The devastating impacts of climate change can sometimes be to terrible to contemplate. The fact that cava, the popular alternative to Champagne, may be under threat should be sobering enough for dinner table discussions. DAISY DUNNE reports
… Spain is famous for its cava – a sparkling wine which is produced in the same way as its … the flavour, aroma and overall quality of the wine. No cause for celebration To understand … of Lleida in Spain. Flavour of the wine In his new research paper, he writes: …
South Africa's wine industry has been hit hard by an export ban and lockdown, yet some businesses are redirecting their resources to supporting local communities.
… HeadStart Trust South Africa South Africa's wine industry has been hit hard by an export … a call from Bruce Jack, an award-winning winemaker from South Africa, asking if I could … We agreed on a theme of climate change and wine in Portugal, with a deadline of two weeks …
Barack Obama now argues “we are speeding our car towards the cliff at a very fast rate”. Adrian Bridge, CEO of the 326yr old port company hosting the former US president adds “what we need to do is stop talking and start doing!” So what next? NICK BREEZE reports
… Protocol Climate Change Obama IPCC UNESCO Wine Obama Porto Protocol Barack Obama now … doing!” So what next? NICK BREEZE reports Wine production in Europe has fallen to … to buildings and so on and so forth.” In wine regions such as Burgundy, cannons firing …
The Cork Oak forests in southern Europe play a huge role in maintaining biodiversity, regulating water cycles, as well as preventing the spread of desertification.
… spaces, including those designed for living. Wine Retreating a short way from the balcony … up the cork that has been set aside from the wine we are drinking, holding it up pinched … was the high rate of TCA that drove so many wine producers to switch to aluminium …
Supermarkets are keen to portray themselves as loyal and supportive business partners, nurturing suppliers in their quest for the best deal for consumers.
… chain to win the title of ‘Overall Wine Merchant of the Year’ in Wine Magazine’s 2002 ‘Oscars’, it publicly … success to the fact that its knowledgeable wine buyer had been in the job for four years …
Since 2018 almost 1000 hectares of land around lake Bolsena, Italy, has been appropriated by the chemically-grown hazelnuts industry.
… and fruit, olive oil, grains and pulses, wines, cheeses, meats, freshwater fish, herbs … some of the finest on the planet, the wines and olive oil are exported globally. … benefits to an area - unlike the olive oil or wine industries - and its nutritional …
Industrial-scale farms are being used to supply big cats for use in traditional asian medicines, new study finds.
… for big cat products, such as tiger bone wine and traditional medicines. Such products … such as ‘big cat plasters’ and ‘tiger bone wine’. Of those that consume these products … where they are processed into medicines and wines. Absolute outrage In China, huge, …
The UK’s organic brewers are calling time on beer corporations, as Rachel Clode discovers
… beer Rachel Clode | 1st July 2008 News Beer Wine Organic Pesticides Agribusiness Organics Wine Beer And Cider Organics Food And Farming … Stuart Thomson made organic beers and wines before buying a microbrewery, and now …
Organic bar and vegan restaurant in Bournemouth hits Number 1 on Trip Advisor.
… and fair-trade blue agave. TWELVE’s organic wine list offers a range of biodynamic and low sulphur wines and champagnes as well as raw wines and wines with no added sulphur. The …
Consumers turned their back on organic but continued to buy fairtrade in 2009, according to the latest sales figures
… brands GREEN LIVING What is biodynamic wine, and which bottles should you pick? Its … principals may seem strange but biodynamic winegrowers are in a league of their own when … caring for soil, plant and planet. Plus, 10 wines to try in 2010 GREEN LIVING Each day, …
Parliament has recommended it, Sainsbury’s has tried it and Tesco is doing it, but what is the future for sustainable transport along the UK’s inland waterways?
… freight by canal’. The scheme is simple: wine shipped from as far away as Australia, … of 4mph. Ten hours and 40 miles later, the wine reaches Manchester, where it is unloaded, …
Would you work on confiscated lands owned by mafia bosses who have killed countless people? The Ecologist reports from Italy on the new farming cooperative turning a bloody past into organic olive oil, oranges and wine
… past into organic olive oil, oranges and wine Once there was blood. Now there are … groups of farmers produce olive oil, pasta, wine and preserves under the label 'Libera …
Teen activists from Fridays For Future discuss climate anxiety, the billionaire press, capitalism, lobbying - and solidarity.
… in Scotland - which is amazing to say.” Fancy wine Asked what she would say to the world … them get the photo op and drink the fancy wine. They know they can get away with it. …
Ross Hume Hall explains how bureaucracy and regulations are crushing small farmers in the USA
… Cider Unfermented Unfiltered Apple Juice Wine Beer And Cider Food And Farming Politics … a rich taste, which like the taste of fine wines, varies among individual cider …
Sylvia Rowley examines Rebecca Hosking's tips to rid your town of plastic bags
… coherent message’. 5 Getting support – free wine helps ‘It’s crucial to get all or at … an art gallery donated space and free wine for Hosking’s first meeting, and a local …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
… supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and wine, and as yet unspoilt by mass tourism. In … sense of Spain’s vast interior, its history, wine and the ubiquitous hanging haunches of …
Imagine if a ‘prosperous’ society was one collectively working towards a happy, hopeful, just vision – and not increased GDP.
… whom he witnessed buying a bottle of wine (not allowed in the “lives of misery” he … it yet, we are willing to use our messy, wine-buying, hope-carrying imperfect selves to …
A little-known licensing scheme allows over 100 Chinese companies to trade in wildlife products like tiger skins, ivory, bear bile and musk deer glands. Vicky Lee shows how the system provides cover for the lucrative illegal wildlife trade to reach wealthy buyers.
… which to make 'health' tonics (tiger bone wine). EIA was shown the head of the tiger and …
Protests against plans to make an enormous storage site for fracked gas at Seneca Lake in New York state seven times bigger are gathering pace, writes Ashoka Jegroo, with 13 arrests at a gate blockade last week. But is the company, Crestwood, getting the message?
… and even negative impacts on the local wine and tourism industries . "The volume of … put it right there over Seneca Lake, near the wine country" , Bill Gautreaux, president of …
A British company is organising hunts of captive lions for trophy hunters, finds investigation by the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting.
… onto lion farmers. Tiger bones To make ‘lion wine’, the carcass of the lioness is hoisted … to reduce the bones to powder and add it to wine. To make the ‘cake’, the skeletons are …
While households and small feel the brunt of California's drought, it's business as usual for agribusiness, writes Will Parrish. And despite the 'first user' principle that determines water rights, the state's indigenous tribes and the wild salmon on which they depend, have been left high and dry. The Public Trust Doctrine could change that - but only if the people demand it.
… conference in Geneva last year. Water into wine, wine into money On the surface, the State … these tributaries have seen an explosion of wine-grape plantings in the past several …