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Carbon Neutral Living

Grove Mill: Carbon Neutral Wines

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Grove Mill Wine Company is not just producing organic wines (though they are). Nor are they just bottling fair trade wine (though they are). They're going so far as to create carbon neutral wine, making them the carbon neutral winery in the world, certified under the CarboNZero Project. They recycle waste water and heat, and even offset the carbon generated by getting the wine from New Zealand over to you. They produce Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Gris, a Late Harvest Gewurztraminer and a Pinot Noir, available worldwide. [GT]

Grove Mill Wine Company

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Posted by on December 12, 2006

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At least living in Europe, wouldn't it be better to buy a wine from France, and avoid the need for flying a bottle of wine halfway around the world in the first place?

Posted by: Mario | December 12, 2006 11:40 AM

I wouldn't have thought they "flew" their wine anywhere, after all a bottle of wine is hardly perishible. I guess the question of quality comes into it, if you can get the same product in France then why buy from New Zealand, but the winos do so there must be some difference.

Posted by: Felix | December 19, 2006 6:47 AM

Mario,

Depends on whether the energy inputs invovled in producing the wine in NZ + the energy inputs of transporting it to Europe are greater than the energy inputs invovled in making the wine in Europe.

Also have to take into account the availability of resources such as water in NZ v in Europe too see which product contributes less to environmental degradation.

Posted by: phil_style | March 4, 2007 11:16 PM

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