Greening your wine
Here’s something you don’t think about everyday:
Your choice of wine bottle can make a significant difference in your carbon footprint.
It turns out that Bag-In-Box packaging of wine can save a lot of carbon. Because the packaging is lighter weight than bottles, it reduces the shipping weight significantly. Since most wines come from California, Australia and France, they travel a very long way to get to your dinner table.
Granted, the best wines aren’t packaged in bag-in-box, but Cincinnati is actually a part of the country where wine is produced locally. Instead of buying that bottle of wine shipped from Australia, try buying your wines from a local company. Then recycle or reuse the bottle.
Here are a few local wineries:
- Vinoklet Winery
- Henke Winery
- Woodstone Creek Winery and Distillery
- Chateau Pomije in Indiana
- Valley Vineyards in Morrow, OH
- Harmony Hill Vineyards in Bethel, OH
For more information on the carbon savings of bag-in-box, the San Francisco Business Times details the 60% reduction in carbon production that one wine company forecasts by using bag-in-box technology.
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Hi Brianne, It looks like we were both thinking about green wine on Monday. I posted a review of a wine from Parducci Cellars, who claim to be the first carbon neutral winery in the US. They have some good wine too.
http://cheapwineratings.com/2008/06/02/parducci-mendocino-valley-zinfandel-environmentally-friendly-and-tasty/
Who doesn’t think about wine on Mondays?!